Nathan Giannini

“truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.”
― Herman Melville

“O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
― William Butler Yeats

“How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.”
― Evans G. Valens, The Other Side of the Mountain: The Story of Jill Kinmont

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden