Patrick Cuna

“Jorinda and Jorindel”
― Jacob Grimm, The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

“He was disappointed in it all. He had developed into an alien. As the steam beer had tasted raw, so their companionship seemed raw to him. He was too far removed. Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself. He had travelled in the vast realm of intellect until he could no longer return home. On the other hand, he was human, and his gregarious need for companionship remained unsatisfied. He had found no new home.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“But if you flip this around, the reason women are smaller and weaker is that men weren’t worth fighting over.
Hold my bag while I victory-lap.”
― Sara Pascoe

“It was very big to think about everything and everywhere. Only God
could do that.”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man