Jaime Andrés Rivera

“Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“After several trips across the Andes, the pattern of the flora was gradually coming into focus. This to me was the great revelation of botany. When I knew nothing of plants, I experienced a forest only as a tangle of forms, shapes, and colors without meaning or depth, beautiful when taken as a whole but ultimately incomprehensible and exotic. Now the components of the mosaic had names, the names implied relationships, and the relationships resonated with significance.”
― Wade Davis

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole