Anna

“It takes many years for a man to realize that his punishment is a present.”
― Baron Ryan, A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories

“Despite all that's wrong with life, you can still hold small flashes of joy that fight the dark like fireworks in the night. No matter how completely you foul up your life, somehow these flashes keep you going on the promise you can start over. You can begin again, I. think in that moment. You can begin again.”
― Baron Ryan, A Comedy of Nobodies: A Collection of Stories

“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Being young and unafraid is about just that, multiple acts of pointless wandering concluded by some life lesson you already learned at twelve.”
― Baron Ryan