Matt

“People like him think you can apologize things away, that you can confess over and over until you are free to repeat your crime.”
― Philipp Meyer, The Son

“Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison. Some part of you which you deeply value lies forever impaled at a crossroads you can no longer find and never forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

“Like a dog!" he said, it was as if the shame of it should outlive him.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial