Felipe Becker

“The notion that adulthood is this place Harry and I were moving toward, and right now we’re collecting baggage, suitcases stuffed with stress and sadness, but we actually need those because what’s inside will furnish our new homes over in Adultland. And as soon as we get there, we’ll start collecting more so that when we die, the coroner’ll say it was anal cancer or heart failure, but really it was the weight of all we’d been carrying.”
― Nick Cutter, The Queen

“But you can’t have it all, not at once, every duck in a row. Life won’t bend that way, and a belief in the possibility is corrosive… and all the while, the most precious stuff is sprinkled right at your feet, waiting to be held.”
― Nick Cutter, The Handyman Method

“The miserable misery of the miser,”
― Scott Smith, The Ruins

“I closed the file, shut down the browser, and turned off the computer, thinking to myself, Well that’s enough internet for today.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume One