Bob Zyla

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“It is is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men