Tim The Enchanter

“It's how we know we're alive," ginger said. "We grieve the dead.”
― Amber Dermont, The Starboard Sea

“We shared the same faith, which was big because she was worried about getting matched with an Internet-spawned psychopathic killing machine. I told her that, historically speaking, there have been several psychos who believed in Jesus, but she told me if I gave her any trouble she'd kick me in the crotch and run - she told me it was what Jesus would do.”
― Dirk Hayhurst, Out of My League: A Rookie's Survival in the Bigs

“Your family's never in your past. You carry it around with you everywhere.”
― M. L. STEADMAN

“...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind