Aaron Mcilhenny

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.”
― Herman Hesse

“have been birds and branches. I have been bees and wolves. I have been ether flooding the void between stars, tangling their breath into networks of song. I have been fish and plankton and humus, and all these have been me. But while I’ve been enmeshed in this wholeness—they are not the whole of me.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“...Do you see things in black and white, or are there shades of gray for you?"
"I hope there's gray...Black and white make things easier, but only if you don't want to think.”
― Harry Turtledove, In at the Death

“Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.”
― Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair