Stratton Murphy

“This is what you deserve. You could be good today. But instead you choose tomorrow.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The love of literature, of language, of the mystery of the mind and heart showing themselves in the minute, strange, and unexpected combinations of letters and words, in the blackest and coldest print—the love which he had hidden as if it were illicit and dangerous, he began to display, tentatively at first, and then boldly, and then proudly.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.”
― Cervantes, Don Quixote

“The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there.”
― J.A. Baker, The Peregrine