This is not the scene I dreamed of. Like much else nowadays I leave it feeling stupid, like a man who lost his way long ago but presses on along a road that may lead nowhere.
–J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians

Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.
–J. D. Salinger,

I think about the hands I have held, the places I've seen, the vast lands whose dirt is caked on the bottom of my shoes. The world has changed me.
~ Amelia (2009)

The Catcher in the Rye