Alex

“I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers;
I remember all you forget.
I will die as many times
as you make me over again.”
― Carl Sandburg, Selected Poems

“To Violet, the greatest danger of eye contact was that people thought you were interested in their opinions.”
― Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

“He considered himself a good man, and always did his best to avoid passing judgement on others, but deep down he had an unshakeable conviction that all rich people were deeply, deeply stupid.”
― Jonathan Sims, Thirteen Storeys

“And tho'
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”
― Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses