John

“Nights like this made her heart and mind wander, and she looked up at the sky again, drawn in by the dance floor of a million blinking lights.”
― Kate Willis, If the Stars Awaken

“I WANT TO REALLY BE with a woman. By that I mean I want to be able to stay up late with her talking about everything. I want to show her all the things that I’ve found out, which aren’t very interesting maybe, but they’re what I have. And I want her to show me all the things that she’s found out….

I want to confide—that’s what I want to do. What confiding is is that you have a woman you like a great deal and you tell her things that you didn’t even know were secrets. You look at her and you feel a nervous warmth because she’s the only person who will understand. She’s just said something so direct and so interesting—something you never heard before—and suddenly all of the distractions of people’s opinions swirling around you stop. You hear just this one woman next to you saying this one opinion that’s coming out of her mouth, and you think, I could listen to her say things forever.”
― Nicholson Baker, Traveling Sprinkler

“But now he came up to himself slowly again—it was like rising through heavy water—and he was warmed by one of the great consolations: nothing very terrible lasts for very long.”
― Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier

“I don’t think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them.”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary