Tom

“The unheard sounds came through, and each melodic line existed of itself, stood out clearly from all the rest, said its piece, and waited patiently for the other voices to speak.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“I want an immediate explanation of the infernal muddle your incompetence has made.”
― Anthony Powell, The Soldier's Art

“Yet a little while," she thought, "and I shall be lying on a bed like that! And what shall I have lived for? What is the meaning of it?" The riddle of life itself was killing her, and she seemed to drown in a sea of inexpressible sorrow.”
― Arnold Bennett, The Old Wives' Tale

“Closing up the canyon camp was like closing up a house after a death. (“It is easier to die than to move,” she wrote Augusta once; “at least for the Other Side you don’t need trunks.”)”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose