Goodman Murphy-Smith

“He closed his eyes, intending to have a vision, but felt so marooned when he did so that he opened them again quick.”
― Samuel Beckett, Echo's Bones

“But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“That day will come years later, during a stifling summer, when he will find himself back at this courtyard letting out a loud, frenzied cry over what he has learned today, as though he is learning it for the first time.”
― An Yu, Ghost Music

“The sky becomes translucent above her, the universe on the other side bleeding through as the blue deepens and the stars prick the atmosphere.”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight