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Trout Stanley

Parents’ imaginations build frameworks out of their own hopes and regrets into which children seldom grow, but instead, contrary as trees, lean sideways out of the architecture blown by a fatal wind their parents never envisaged.

– Elizabeth Smart, By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

The legend of the traveler appears in every civilization, perpetually assuming new forms, afflictions, powers, and symbols. Through every age he walks in utter solitude toward penance and redemption.

– Evan S. Connell Jr., Notes from a Bottle

We move between two darknesses. The two entities who might enlighten us, the baby and the corpse, cannot do so.

– E. M. Forster, Aspects of the Novel

I would like to learn, or remember how to live.

– Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to Talk