Chris Jones, in the April 2010 issue of The Walrus:

I saw her only once, ten days before the earthquake.

Later, Phil ran into her in the laundry room. "Have you ever been to Haiti?" she asked.

Haruki Murakami:

One beautiful April morning, on a narrow side street in Tokyo's fashionable Harujuku neighborhood, I walked past the 100% perfect girl.

Lisa Moore:

It has always been this way.

Finite.

But at forty-five you realize it.

David Foster Wallace:

If you've never wept and want to, have a child.

Cormac McCarthy, "The Road":

We're going to be okay, aren't we Papa?
Yes. We are.
And nothing bad is going to happen to us.
That's right.
Because we're carrying the fire.
Yes. Because we're carrying the fire.

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