Paul Reiners

“He held up a hand to stop her. “Then one day, about six months ago, it hit me—love doesn’t trump all for you, safety does. And I knew sooner or later you’d dump me before I’d dump you because—and this is the important part, Rach—I would never dump you.” He gave her a beautiful, broken smile. “And that’s been my purpose all along.” After”
― Dennis Lehane, Since We Fell

“We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.”
― John Dewey

“In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“There is nothing more nerve-wracking than being inches from a lifelong goal.”
― Lisa Belkin, Show Me A Hero