Jeff Kirchner

“Running to him was real; the way he did it the realest thing he knew. It was all joy and woe, hard as diamond; it made him weary beyond comprehension. But it also made him free.”
― John L. Parker Jr., Once a Runner

“lumps from their life,”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

“Old times, as my father used to say: If you’re not careful, they’ll gut you like a fish.”
― Amor Towles, Rules of Civility

“The real loneliness begins with my failures as son, husband, father, physician, lover, friend.”
― George Sheehan, Running & Being: The Total Experience