Dion Benny

“Life is a gift that must be given back and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short and that's a fact. Hard to accept this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme. A battle won.”
― Dean Koontz, The Book of Counted Sorrows

“She could hear, some way off, her brothers calling to each other in the woods behind the house. She hoped desperately that their game wouldn't bring them any closer, that they wouldn't scare the birds away.
Somehow she knew that you didn't get many moments like this in your life: moments when you knew, without any doubt, that you were alive, when you felt the air in your lungs and the wet grass beneath your feet and the cotton on your skin; moments when you were completely in the present, when neither the past nor the future mattered.
She tried to slow her breathing, hoping somehow to make this moment last forever.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“I was not born to be free---I was born to adore and obey.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Time is too large, it can't be filled up. Everything you plunge into it is stretched and disintegrates.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea