Ryan

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
― James Baldwin

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Harvest moon:
around the pond I wander
and the night is gone.”
― Matsuo Basho