Benjamin Matthew Wallace

“Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“it’s nearly impossible to convey our deepest passions yet damned easy to share what’s dullest and worst about ourselves.”
― Charles D'Ambrosio, Loitering: New and Collected Essays

“Without realizing it, we fill important places in each other’s lives. It’s that way with the guy at the corner grocery, the mechanic at the local garage, the family doctor, teachers, neighbors, coworkers. Good people who are always “there,” who can be relied upon in small, important ways. People who teach us, bless us, encourage us, support us, uplift us in the dailiness of life. We never tell them. I don’t know why, but we don’t.
And, of course, we fill that role ourselves. There are those who depend in us, watch us, learn from us, take from us. And we never know.
You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“I have no way of knowing whether the events that I am about to narrate are effects or causes.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Collected Fictions