Josh

“He could say nothing. He had no right to be there, he had already been profoundly changed, he was no good at small talk, she was half naked, it was dawn and he loved her.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

“The human body lives in the mind of one who possesses a human body, and to live inside the human body possessed of the mind that perceives another human body is to live in a world of others.”
― Paul Auster, Sunset Park: A Novel

“Evidently, rigging cables is therapy for the Swiss: or part of their theology. What was it that he used to say? A balanced arc between mountain rows / as servant to his master shows / the power of besieged belief / in something something something, something something something-something to do with ducks, or rainbows.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale: A #1 New York Times Bestselling Masterpiece of Magical Realism in Belle Époque New York

“When you die, you know, you hear the insistent pounding that defines all things, whether of matter or energy, since there is nothing in the universe, really, but proportion.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale: A #1 New York Times Bestselling Masterpiece of Magical Realism in Belle Époque New York