Stian

“Livet tar snart slutt likevel,
og da gjør det ikke noe at du har vært ensom og stygg og ulykkelig.”
― Kjell Askildsen, Et stort øde landskap

“All the time we were growing up," Frank said, "you wanted to run away and join the carnival?"
"Yes, and there I was with all o' you, right in the carnival, and didn't even know it." And he hoped he'd always be able to recall the way she laughed then.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

“She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’… but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
― Kurt Vonnegut