Blake Rutledge

“He is a moviegoer, though of course he does not go to movies.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“But then, like all feelings, it passed.”
― Emma Cline, The Guest

“It was a mistake to believe that other people were not living as deeply as you were. Besides, you were not even living that deeply.”
― Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

“I can summon no wonder for what lies between Dallas and Washington. The south is memories, memories — it cannot help believing that yesterday was better than tomorrow can possibly be. Some of the memories are extraordinarily well packaged, it is true, but when a place has been reduced in its own estimation no amount of artful packaging can hide the gloom.”
― Larry McMurtry, In a Narrow Grave : Essays on Texas