Tracee

“I threw it down the air shaft. There's a concrete floor below.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.”
― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

“Lost are we, and are only so far punished,
That without hope we live on in desire.”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes as the players get older and the pursuit more stress-fraught. American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest