Steven Howell

“Our plans for the future made us laugh and feel close, but those same plans somehow made anything more than temporary between us seem impossible. It was the first time I’d ever had the feeling of missing someone I was still with.”
― Stuart Dybek, The Coast of Chicago: Stories

“When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.”
― George R.R. Martin

“We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.”
― Albert Camus

“It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.”
― C.S. Lewis, On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature