Autumn

“Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“What a cruel fact of the world, that you could live your whole life in sight of what you want most and still find yourself unable to attain it, because of some vicious quirk.”
― Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans: A Novel