Eileen

“I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.”
― Philip Levine