Vernon

“I'm against endings. I'm against things being over. Being finished should be stopped! I am Comrade-in-Chief of going on. I support furthermore and etcetera!”
― Saša Stanišić, How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone

“That's the way it is when you love. It makes you suffer, and I have suffered much in the years since. But it matters little that you suffer, so long as you feel alive with a sense of the close bond that connects all living things, so long as love does not die!”
― Hermann Hesse, Peter Camenzind

“I wore an eye patch when I was a kid, you said. Maybe we met out here and fell in love over bad barbecue.

I doubt it, I said.

I'm just saying, Yunior.

Maybe five thousand years ago we were together.

Five thousand years ago I was in Denmark.

That's true. And half of me was in Africa.

Doing what?

Farming, I guess. That's what everybody does everywhere.

Maybe we were together some other time.

I can't think when, I said.

You tried not to look at me. Maybe five million years ago.

People weren't even people back then.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
And yellow
A terrible amber.
In the cold streets
Your warm body.
In whatever room
Your warm body.
Among all the people
Your absence
The people who are always
Not you.


I have been easy with trees
Too long.
Too familiar with mountains.
Joy has been a habit.
Now
Suddenly
This rain.”
― Jack Gilbert