James Widmark

“Everything is happening and has happened and will happen again. Everything that exists has always existed and will continue to exist. Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don’t be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part of your heart. Myth is the true history. Don’t let them tell you that there are no monsters. Don’t let them make you feel stupid, just because you are happy to play down in the dark with your flashlight. The mystical world depends on you and your tolerance for the absurd.”
― Nick Cave, The Sick Bag Song

“Money can’t buy you happiness, darling. Believe me, I’ve tried.” “But it affords your own brand of misery.”
― Blake Crouch, Good Behavior

“It's not easy to subdue a person bigger than you and not hurt him in the process."
"Well, I think I found your problem, then. Why don't we try hurting him?”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Theft of Swords

“I thus concluded, with the same awe of Jane Goodall discovering the chimpanzees’ nimble use of tools to extract termites, it really wasn’t so much the tragic event itself, but others having knowledge of it that prevented recovery.”
― Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics