Nicholas Tracey

“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

“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

“If we could once forget the conventional things, the roses, the pierced hearts, the fairy wings and get to something larger, something true; instead of sipping from exhausted springs to drink from the full river in its flow.”
― Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

“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