James

“Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison. Some part of you which you deeply value lies forever impaled at a crossroads you can no longer find and never forget.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“Men start off good and then the world makes them mean. The world is mean from the start and gets meaner every day. It uses you up until you only dream of death.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

“I am what I am. To look for reasons is beside the point.”
― Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

“Because he was beginning to fear that man belongs neither in civilization nor nature—because we are aberrations between two states of being.”
― William Giraldi, Hold the Dark