⊹ Ellie ⊹

“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

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men