Michael Fish

“And before he can tell her to tell Widget goodbye for him if need be, she leans forward and kisses him, not on the cheek, as she has a handful of times before, but on the lips, and Bailey knows in that moment that he will follow her anywhere.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“Mors certa, vita incerta,”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Space is space,life is life,everywhere is the same. But as for me, sustained by the toil of others, lacking civilized vices with which to fill my leisure, I pamper my melancholy and try to find in the vacuousness of the desert a special historical poignancy. Vain, idle, misguided! How fortunate that no one sees me!”
― J.M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians