Garrett Bing

“You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.”
― Peter Straub, Shadowland

“They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry. He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that is smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things.”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome

“Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was beautiful, serenely beautiful. The forest was beautiful, greenly beautiful. Lake and forest, the whole shimmering world was painfully beautiful. He loved this world, but he was too hurt to enjoy it.”
― William Steig, The Real Thief

“He sees me through the glass. We both nod like we give a small shit about each other.”
― Peter Hedges, What's Eating Gilbert Grape