Jason

“It had been four years. Four years ago, the return home had been to take care of paperwork related to the family registry when I got married. When I thought back on it, what a pointless trip! I thought it was all paperwork. The problem was that nobody else thought it. It comes down to the different ways in which minds work. What's over for one person isn't over for another. But the path splits in two different directions, and so you end up apart.
From that point on there was no hometown for me. Nowhere to return to. What a relief! No one to want me, no one to want anything from me.”
― Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase

“It's a miracle to realize that somebody loves you.”
― James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk

“She of all people knows what compilation tapes represent.”
― Nick Hornby

“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency