James Lee Burke - Swan Peak

"How do you explain to yourself the casual manner
in which you threw your life away?"

 

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Loren Eiseley - The Immense Journey

"For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the whisper of the wind in the night reeds. Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the chill waters, that he had before him an immense journey. Perhaps that same foreboding still troubles the hearts of those who walk out of a crowded room and stare with relief into the abyss of space so long as there is a star to be seen twinkling across those miles of emptiness."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Wind, Sand and Stars

"No doubt somewhere there did sit young girls among their white lemurs or their books, secretly compounding souls as rich in delights as secret gardens."

Ted Berrigan - A Certain Slant of Sunlight

"...I’ll go out for a drink with one of my demons tonight..."