Chad Gerdts

“An idea doesn't die," said Trapp. "It exists somewhere, in its own dimension, waiting to be perceived.”
― Louis Sachar, The Cardturner: A Novel about a King, a Queen, and a Joker

“There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Case of Identity - a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

“soldiers on the banks of the canal, they looked carefully to see whether they were Japanese or Chinese so they’d know which pass to pull out.”
― Katherine Paterson, Stories of My Life

“One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadn’t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.”
― Nicole Krauss, Great House