Giovanni Raffaele

“Silence fell like a hammer made of feathers. It left holes in the shape of the sound of the sea.”
― Terry Pratchett, Nation

“I was watching Rocky with a friend of mine. And there's all these scenes of him sitting on this dirty mattress, alone- this guy is so alone, it's beautiful how alone he is. Nobody's alone like that anymore. Nobody.”
― Louis C.K.

“You are by no means only what you already know. You are also all that which you could know, if you only would. Thus, you should never sacrifice what you could be for what you are. You should never give up the better that resides within for the security you already have—and certainly not when you have already caught a glimpse, an undeniable glimpse, of something beyond.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“It was like the beginning of the end of the world.”
― Kenneth Eade, Terror on Wall Street, a Financial Metafiction Novel