Aaron Kent

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the Universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
― Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

“He had learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational.”
― Lee Child, Die Trying

“Revising objectives is smart because it stops you throwing good money after bad.”
― Lee Child, Persuader

“For only through assiduous repetition is it possible to redistribute skewed tendencies.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World