Dave

“Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“It amazed Forrest that so many men seemed to wake up in the morning needing some kind of beating or another, men saying and doing fantastic things for the sake of getting another man to smash his face.”
― Matt Bondurant, The Wettest County in the World

“No one ever said that you would live to see the repercussions of everything you do, or that you have guarantees, or that you are not obliged to wander in the dark, or that everything will be proved to you and neatly verified like something in science. Nothing is: at least nothing that is worthwhile.”
― Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale

“One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning.”
― Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case