“I'm a quitter. I come from a long line of quitters. It's amazing I'm here at all.”
“We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.”
“I didn't know you were related to Sewall Boat House too,' she said.'Yeah. I come from a long line of wood and stone.”
“The only thing I have learned from life is to endure it, never to question it, and to burn up the longing generated by this in writing. Where this ideal has come from I have no idea, and as I now see it before me, in black and white, it almost seems perverse.”
“We come from a long line of people who live to read boring texts – I think it may be why we all die young. Complete boredom. (Geary)”