Victoria

“Was this the only true history of the times, a mood blared by trumpets, trombones, saxophones and drums, a song with turgid, inadequate words? My mind flowed. It was as though in this short block I was forced to walk past everyone I’d ever known and no one would smile or call my name. No one fixed me in his eyes. I walked in feverish isolation.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the telling; and although there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark

“And it hits me. Like a goddamn Mack truck. Sheldon Soleskin is utterly adorable. Asshole.”
― M.A. Wardell, Mistletoe and Mishigas

“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
― Lewis Carroll