Powell's Books

“Don’t you know what that is? It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want ― oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” ― Mark Twain (http://powells.us/11I5mip)

“That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.”

- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest