Chadookadook

“A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-green ocean. It sighed up through the branches of cherry trees and rattled the thick leaves. Sometimes a cherry would break loose, tumble in the gale, fall and split, filling the night with its fragrance. The air was iron and loam and growth.

He walked and tried to pull these things into his lungs, the silence and coolness of them.

But someone was screaming, deep inside him. Someone was talking. ("Hunger")”
― Charles Beaumont, Shock!

“It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

“they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the most beautiful
things
on earth?”
― Charles Bukowski

“Terrible things happen to good people every day.
Consequentially, I am not one of the good people.
I am one of the terrible things.”
― Marianna Paige