Trenton

“..I have been many things since last we met. I have been trees and rivers and hills and stones. I have spoken to stars and earth and wind.”
― Susanna Clarke

“There will always be men who are justified in this interest in themselves, this detailed observation of their own emotions; poets who can express with clarity and beauty their privileged inner life, and thereby enrich the emotional world of other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family

“I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.”
― E.L. Konigsburg

“Good things can come from thinking about and facing your death. It's about understanding life.”
― Lynda Wolters, Voices of Cancer: What We Really Want, What We Really Need