Nathaniel Matychuk

“People will go to strange lengths to avoid the suffering they have coming.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“I was desperately clinging to a scrap of wood that had been swept away. In pitch-black darkness, not a single star, or the moon, visible in the sky. As long as I clung to that piece of wood I wouldn’t drown, but I had no clue where I was, where I was heading.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“He knew that those things we most desire to hold in our hearts are often taken from us while that which we would put away seems often by that very wish to become endowed with unsuspected powers of endurance.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

“Everything has a bright side,” he said. “The top of even the blackest, thickest cloud shines like silver.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore