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“I remember thinking that if I jumped into the river the pain may go away. I raised my arms out to the side of my body and lowered my head. ‘Oh, God,’ I said, looking down at the half-shadowed stream, ‘why would you leave me here?”
― J. William Lewis, The Essence of Nathan Biddle

“Maybe the really beautiful things are like that: little glowing sparks in the mundane darkness of everyday existence.”
― J. William Lewis, The Essence of Nathan Biddle

“It’s like the joke about the guy who looks up in the sky and plaintively shouts, ‘Who am I?’ and a booming voice answers, ‘Who wants to know?”
― J. William Lewis, The Essence of Nathan Biddle

“That is probably some kind of moron, maybe oxy or maybe just me.”
― J. William Lewis, The Essence of Nathan Biddle