Johnny Pea

“Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity—they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.”
― Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

“Dearest”
― J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla

“goes real quiet until it feels like the universe must have stolen it from you—but guess what? You may have stolen it from yourself. That, or it gets embarrassed out of you by the kids who run the same stretch of streets”
― Craig Davidson, The Saturday Night Ghost Club

“thought of you stirs him so deeply that he cannot be content unless he praises you, because you made us for yourself and our hearts find no peace until they rest in you.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions