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“The other afternoon, when you fell asleep on my shoulder, I drifted off, too. But before I did, it occurred to me looking around at all of your things and your work and going through years of work in my mind, that of all your work, you are still your most beautiful. The most beautiful work of all.”
― Patti Smith (29/11/2022), Just Kids

“Along the banks of the Seine the couples strolled as always on summer nights, hand in hand, slowly as if drinking wine in the dusk and love and youth that will never, however hard they try, be quite the same again.”
― Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackal

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner: A Novel

“One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune