Todd

“Alyosha was certain that no one in the whole world ever would want to hurt him, and what is more, he knew that no one could hurt him. This was for him an axiom, assumed once and for all without question. And he went his way without hesitation, relying on it.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Dust and literature have always gone hand in hand.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“... novels contained something inexpressibly delicious.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“When I was a boy I first learned how much better water tastes when it has set a while in a cedar bucket. Warmish-cool, with a faint taste like the hot July wind in Cedar trees smells.”
― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying