Nim

“Paradoxically, that thought of eternity took away some of my fear. To be trapped for a day, even one day, was brutal. A year was sickening. Any finite amount of time implied an eventual release, and my longing for release hurt me in the gut like chronic appendicitis. But eternity—that was on a different level of conception. It forced the mind to acquiesce entirely and accept the here, the now, and the comfort, such as it was.”
― Michael S.A. Graziano, The Divine Farce

“Oh, I miss her so much. I think our love could have lasted forever. I’m sure it would have. She was so … no, I won’t cheapen it by trying to express it in words and short sentences. I loved her. That is enough.”
― Steven L. Peck, A Short Stay in Hell

“Some things are so bad that just to have been near them taints you, leaves a spot of badness in your soul like a bare patch in the forest where nothing will grow.”
― John Langan, The Fisherman

“All of this was completely as usual; in the words of the song, same as it ever was.”
― John Lanchester, The Wall