Cathy Bennett

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“a happy birthday

this evening, I sat by an open window
and read till the light was gone and the book
was no more than a part of the darkness.
I could easily have switched on a lamp,
but I wanted to ride the day down into night,
to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page
with the pale gray ghost of my hand”
― Ted Kooser, Delights and Shadows

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi