Dog Thoughts by Anna Haifisch

• Here's the life I've always longed for

Amazing Spider-man #349

• To die-- one must have lived! And I... I have never lived! How could i have? I have no name! No face! No soul! I... am a nothing! A nothing!

Justin Keenan, narrative designer for Disco Elysium

• "Why can't we kiss Kim?"
• "Because the thing about desire is that it's stronger when it's not totally satisfied."

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

• And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman p. 74

• Bogdan's mother had died when he was nineteen. She had come into some money when Bogdan's father had died. From somewhere, it hadn't been a time for details. The money paid for Bogdan to take up a place at the Technical University in Krakow, to study engineering. And that's where he had been when his mother suffered a stroke and collapsed at home. If he had still been at home then he would have saved her, but he wasn't, and so he didn't.
• Bogdan came home, buried his mother and left for England the next day. Nearly twenty years later he is looking at a stupid lawn.