Jacob Messineo

“You can’t protect people, kiddo,” Wally said. “All you can do is love them.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“What is life if not the shadow of a fleeting dream?”
― Umberto Eco, Baudolino

“The greatest travelers have not gone beyond the limits of their own world; they have trodden the paths of their own souls, of good and evil, of morality and redemption.”
― Carlo Levi, Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year

“Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.”
― Leonardo Sciascia, The Day of the Owl