Tom

“These sentences, evidently the ripened grain of many dark hours, took Gerald by surprise.”
― D. H. Lawrence, Women in Love

“Even love aghast was love, and God could not destroy that.”
― E.L. Doctorow, The March

“Little did Papa realize that morning that he was never to see us or hold us again, nor would he ever again harken to the meadowlarks of Yell County trilling a joyous anthem to spring.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway