Will Brenner

“...[A]nything worth dying for ... is certainly worth living for.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“I was eighteen now, just gone. Eighteen was not a young age. At eighteen old Wolfgang Amadeus had written concertos and symphonies and operas and oratorios and all that cal, no, not cal, heavenly music. And then there was old Felix M. with his "Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture. And there were others. And there was this like French poet set by old Benjy Britt, who had done all his best poetry by the age of fifteen, O my brothers. Arthur, his first name. Eighteen was not all that young an age then. But what was I going to do?”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“When the cracks split in the road are all you've seen, you either live it up or you don't live it down. So don't go giving up or let it bring you down.”
― dan nigro