Nate

“I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies: A Pulitzer Prize-Winning Literary Classic Set Between India and New England

“It seems to me that when you look back at a life, yours or another's, what you see is a path that weaves into and out of deep shadow. So much is lost. What we use to construct the past is what has remained in the open, a hodgepodge of fleeting glimpses. our histories, like my father's current body, are structures built of toothpicks. So what I recall is a construct both of what stands in the light and what I imagine in the dark where I cannot see.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace

“Wandering’s the most addictive drug there is, I think, and every hidden road leads on to a dozen more.”
― Stephen King, Wolves of the Calla

“He waved before she could respond, turning and walking out the door where a guard waited. In her throat a sob married a scream and became nothing.”
― Jim Harrison, Julip