Kosh Koshover

“Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?”
― Richard Yates, Young Hearts Crying

“For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on and fill up the entire lens space and never dry. She could carry the sadness of the moment with her that way forever, see the world refracted through those tears, those specific tears, as if indices as yet unfound varied in important ways from cry to cry.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

“And do you know a funny thing? I'm almost fifty years old and I've never understood anything in my whole life.”
― Richard Yates, The Easter Parade

“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”
― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road