Luke Mann

“He is always looking back, living more in memories than the present, often altering them to make them prettier. To make them perfect. Nostalgia is as much an analgesic for him as alcohol.”
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

“It is sentimental and useless to tell someone you would gladly give them your past because the past is nontransferable, and anyway I would have wanted to give her only the good days.”
― Ann Patchett, Tom Lake

“It's too boring to get into.' He was astonished but relieved by how easily they accepted that, and grateful too for their self-absorption. None of them really wanted to listen to someone else's story anyway: they only wanted to tell their own.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“People got used to anything their bodies gave them; he was no exception. If your body was well, you expected it to perform for you, excellently, consistently. If your body was not, your expectations were different.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life