Charles Beauregard

“He said that that what men do not understand is that what the dead have quit is itself no world but is only the picture of the world in men's hearts. He said that the world cannot be quit for it is eternal in whatever form as are all things within it.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“Using someone's name during a conversation was like a casual caress, like stroking their hair.”
― Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven

“Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive / The Fugitive

“All human beings were of course unique, and they only discovered that when someone else fell in love with them or when no one ever fell in love with them.”
― Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven