Matt

“You can exclude the excluded middle, but when you ride through, on your way to a lonely and more certain place, out the window you'll see everyone you've ever known living there.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

“Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.”
― Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

“I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

“I was more alone than if I had been alone.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close