It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes.

Collin Singleton could no more stay cool than a blue whale could stay skinny or Bangladesh could stay rich

I believe in that line from An Imperial Affliction. 'The risen sun too bright in her losing eyes.' That's God, I think, the rising sun, and the light is too bright and her eyes are losing but they aren't lost.

She would stay on the road and in hiding, a balloon floating through the sky, eating up hundreds of miles a day with a help of the perpetual tailwind.

feeling - probably for the first time in my life - the fear and excitement of living in a place where you never know what's going to happen or when.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

What about the rest of your life?" She shrugged. "What about it?" "Aren't you worried about, like, forever?" "Forever is composed of nows," she says.