Nicholas Tracey

“He lies still in the dark, hungry, listening to the birds discuss life in a thousand ancient dialects: bickering, turf war, recollection, praise, joy.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

“Yes, I'd rather be shy than smart; a foolish diffidence constrains my heart. I reach for a star; then, from a morbid dread of ridicule, I pluck a flower instead.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“Once we are born, we begin to forget
The very reason we cane
But you I'm sure I've met
Long before the night the stars went out
We're meeting up again”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story

“I'd given myself a license to look back, to lift up stones under which I knew lay creepy-crawlies.”
― Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story