Aaron Bartles

“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited

“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
― Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West