- "It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been more successful as a seagull or a fish. I will always be a stranger, who never feels at home, who does not want and is not wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death!" -Eugene O'Neill, "Long Day's Journey Into Night"
- "That's the key. And you know, this thought crossed my mind at the time: maybe chance is a pretty common thing after all. Those kinds of coincidences are happening all around us, all the time, but most of them don't catch out attention and we just let them go by. It's like fireworks in the daytime. You might hear a faint sound, but even if you look up at the sky you can't see a thing. But if we're really hoping something may come true, it may become visible, like a message rising to the surface. Then we're able to make it out clearly, decipher what it means. And seeing it before us we're surprised and wonder at how strange things like this can happen. even though there's nothing strange about it. I just can't help thinking that. What do you think? Is this forcing things?" - Haruki Murakami, Chance Traveler (short story)
- "There’s one more thing. I want you to remember, there are compensations in life. There always are, or we wouldn’t go on living. You don’t feel well, now; neither do I. But something will happen to fix that. Do you believe that?" - Ray Bradbury, A Story of Love
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