slaughterhouse five

"But she did look back, and I loved her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore."

-Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
-Photo: Stephen Shames (via)

murakami

"What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no returning to how things were, no going back."

-Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
-Photo: Albert Levy (via)