Ian Bennett

“I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can't love and do nothing.”
― Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

“A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice.”
― Paul Auster

“Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars