Alexis

“My heart was crazy now; it's too complicated to know what it was beating for, and how much of it was him and how much of it was the hunting - I think I cared about the deer that got shot - but it didn't matter then. Something was there and its source was irrelevant. It was so easy to feel nothing, all the time, and I held on as hard as I could, because the worst thing, I thought, now, would be for it to go away.”
― Patrick Somerville, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

“The most romantic love stories are the ones where nobody ever gets what they want because they are always pretending they don't want it.”
― Chelsea Martin, Even Though I Don't Miss You

“Human beings, you see, fall apart all the time. In many different ways. That is the central theme. There is no need to disguise it.”
― Patrick Somerville, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.”
― John Muir