"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." 
― Hermann Hesse

"If at the end of the war story you feel uplifted or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie."
-Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried

"I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark."
-Raymond Carver, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

~Tahynnis xx