Nathan

“Like I always do when somebody praises me, I mumbled some vague reply.”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“We live in a country where nothing makes any difference.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Of course I'd like to be prettier or smarter or rich. But I really can't imagine what would happen to me if any of those things came true. They might be more than I can handle. I still don't really know what life is all about. I don't know how it works.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“You once told me that the human eye is god's loneliest creation. How so much of the world passes through the pupil and still it holds nothing. The eye, alone in its socket, doesn't even know there's another one, just like it, an inch away, just as hungry, as empty.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous