Chris

“We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in a mountain is in company, because the birds and coneys, the initiates whose words live in his 'forest books,' and the winds--the messengers of the Increate--are his companions. Another man, living in the midst of millions, may be alone, because there are none but enemies and victims around him.”
― Gene Wolfe, Sword & Citadel

“Ridere è riequilibrare le disgrazie, è impedire alle circostanze avverse di mandarti fuori di testa.”
― Teresa Radice, La terra, il cielo, i corvi

“One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.”
― Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey

“We live as we dream--alone....”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness