Nick Lehr

“For everything there is a season / But there is the dream / Of a season past all seasons.”
― Robert Penn Warren, Audubon: A Vision

“Hydrox cookies (what happened to them? They used to be so good. Sugar. No doubt they're leaving out sugar)”
― Ann Beattie, Chilly Scenes of Winter

“The fast was ended. Like the story he had read to them so many times, of the poor couple who were given three wishes and wasted them, he had not wanted enough. He saw that clearly. When all was said, he had wanted one thing, it was far too small: he had wanted them to grow up in the happiest of homes.

One of the last great realizations is that life will not be what you dreamed.”
― James Salter, Light Years

“Phantasy provides a kind of temporary glue, which keeps people from falling apart through the production of illusions which enable them somehow to live with themselves.”
― Alexander Kluge