Jimmy

“He wants to feel good, he always used to feel good at every turning of the year, every vacation or end of vacation, every new sheet on the calendar: but his adult life has proved to have no seasons, only changes of weather, and the older he gets, the less weather interests him. The house next to his old house still has the FOR SALE sign up. He tries his front door”
― John Updike, Rabbit Redux

“Be a little kind to yourself, please. If you can be whoever you want, wouldn't it be nice to be someone you liked?”
― Nghi Vo, Don't Sleep with the Dead

“There is a golden sheen that sits over my memories of St. Paul, for all that they are not really mine. It insists that the Midwest is more genteel, more innocent, but of course that is a lie. You could destroy yourself anywhere. You could kill yourself anywhere.”
― Nghi Vo, Don't Sleep with the Dead

“You go from dream to dream inside me. You have passage to my last shabby corner, and there, among the debris, you’ve found life. I’m no longer sure which of all the words, images, dreams or ghosts are ‘yours’ and which are ‘mine.’ It’s past sorting out.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow