Bonus

“Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.”
― Tom Spanbauer, Now Is the Hour

“It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.”
― Stephen Crane, The Portable Stephen Crane

“If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.”
― George Pelecanos

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road