Erik Torenberg

“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things better work here, because here, beneath the immense bleached sky,is where we run out of continent.”
― Joan Didion

“I tell you everything.”
“Nothing that matters.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Purity

“Paradox of marriage: you can never know someone entirely; you do know someone entirely.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“Only once, and only because I was very young, could I have merged my identity with another person’s, and singularities like this are where you find eternity.”
― Jonathan Franzen