Bastian

“Death was no less a miracle than birth.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“A life without love is like a tree without fruit.”
― Stephen King, Doctor Sleep

“There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso

“What we see as risk and foolhardiness on the outside can seem more like a constant cohesive drive on the inside that holds to priorities that cannot be discerned by others because they reside in a far too private chamber of personal experience to be shared easily. To dare everything is not necessarily to travel off, but often the opposite, to have faith in a foundation you have discovered in life and which, though it is difficult to describe, even to yourself, you refuse to relinquish.”
― David Whyte, The Three Marriages: Reimagining Work, Self and Relationship