Joshua

“Why is it so hard to transcend the identities assigned to us when we were young?”
― Anthony Doerr, Cloud Cuckoo Land

“Some things cannot be erased through silence. Some people have that power over you, whether you like it or not. I begin to see that now. Some people, some events, make you lose your head. They're like guillotines, cutting your life in two, the dead and the alive, the before and the after.”
― Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

“The death of a dream can be, in a way, sadder than that of a living being. Sometimes it all seems so unfair.”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories

“I've never liked giving up on a book once I've started it. I always hold out hope that there will be some riveting development toward the end, though the chances of that are pretty slim.”
― Haruki Murakami, First Person Singular: Stories