Dave Buie

“We did not ask for this room or this music. We were invited in. Therefore, because the dark surrounds us, let us turn our faces to the light. Let us endure hardship to be grateful for plenty. We have been given pain to be astounded by joy. We have been given life to deny death. We did not ask for this room or this music. But because we are here, let us dance.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“Humans sometime say my heart skipped a beat to convey surprise, shock, terror. This confused me at first because my organ heart skips beats, many of them, every time I swim. But when the cleaning woman fell from the stool, I was not swimming. And yet it stuttered.”
― Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures

“Problem was, whenever I locked eyes with an animal I felt something more soulful than I
ever felt from the humans I knew, and what I saw in that sprawled giraffe’s eye made me ache
to the bone.”
― Lynda Rutledge, West With Giraffes

“…a racehorse is a mirror, and a man sees his own reflection there. He wants to think he’s
from the best breeding. He wants to think himself brave. Can he win against all comers? And if not, does he have self-mastery to take a loss, stay cool in defeat, and try again undaunted? Those are the qualities of a great racehorse and a great gentleman.”
― Geraldine Brooks