Billy Cavagnaro

“This is why you shouldn't fall in love, it blinds you. Love is wicked distraction.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“No wonder Mr. Tagomi could not go on, he thought. The terrible dilemma of our lives. Whatever happens, it is evil beyond compare. Why struggle, then? Why choose? If all alternatives are the same . . . Evidently we go on, as we always have. From day to day. At this moment we work against Operation Dandelion. Later on, at another moment, we work to defeat the police. But we cannot do it all at once; it is a sequence. An unfolding process. We can only control the end by making a choice at each step. He thought, We can only hope. And try. On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components. We do not have the ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious. The”
― Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

“It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___"
"Well?"
"From you, sir”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Only in books do we learn what’s really going on.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country