Michael

“In the dark silence, in the void of all sensation, something began to know it. Very dimly at first, from immeasurably far away, but gradually the presence approached. The dimness of that other knowledge grew brighter ...”
― Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop

“Nature looks more beautiful in the rain”
― Melissa Harrison

“It wasn’t long before Jonathan Gull was off by himself again, far out at sea, hungry, happy, learning.”
― Richard Bach

“He had a glimpse at the figure that flitted through the smoking rooms and pages of cheap fiction -a pitiable fellow in his middle age, seeking to renew his youth by taking up with a girl who was much younger ... a fatuous, garishly got up clown at whom the world laughed out of discomfort, pity, and contempt. He looked at this figure as closely as he could; but the longer he looked the less familiar it became. It was not himself that he saw, and he knew suddenly that it was no-one.”
― John Williams