Jason Carter

“… he couldn’t afford the time not to love. It was as if he had come with her a little way on a journey that she would finish alone. The separating years approached them both, like a station down the line, all gain for her and all loss for him.”
― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

“I prefer to stay in the woods, that’s my joy. Here in my solitude it does no harm to anyone that I am as I am, but when I get together with others I have to concentrate on being as I ought to.”
― Knut Hamsun, Pan