Ben Gulapa

“Not all pain is significant. (on Dave Terry)”
― Scott Jurek, Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“When the world ends, it ends somewhat differently for each soul then alive to see it; the end doesn’t come all at once but passes and repasses over the world like the shivers that pass over a horse’s skin. The coming of the end might at first lift and shake just one county, one neighborhood, and not the others around it; might feelably ripple beneath the feet of these churchgoers and not of these taverngoers down the street, shatter only the peace of this street, this family, this child of this family who at that moment lifts her eyes from the Sunday comics and knows for certain that nothing will ever be the same again.”
― John Crowley, DAEMONOMANIA: Book Three of the Aegypt Cycle

“Compared to the you in my heart, the I in you is insignificant.”
― Kōbō Abe, The Box Man

“No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Schopenhauer as Educator