Daron Vandeleur

“All America lies at the end of the wilderness road, and our past is not a dead past, but still lives in us. Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still lingers. What they dreamed, we live, and what they lived, we dream. —T. K. Whipple, Study Out the Land”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“And yet she was wholly herself: a rarity.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“It made me feel less mortal, less ordinary. It was support and vindication; it was sustenance and sum. It was the keystone that held the whole cathedral up. And it was awful to learn, by having it so suddenly vanish from under me, that all my adult life I'd been privately sustained by that great, hidden, savage joy: the conviction that my whole life was balanced atop a secret that might at any movement blow me part.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“The nicest thing André ever said about me was ‘She’s Beauty and the Beast, I like the idea that nobody’s one or the other. You can be the regular girl and you can be the monster at the same time. They’re one and the same. The beast doesn’t have to be an evil or a destructive thing. It’s about possibility and feeling and emotion and all of that stuff.”
― Julianne Moore