Simon

“It occurred to me that it didn't matter if we never made it to Cologne, because hoping about life, however briefly, with another person is enough”
― Adrian Duncan, Love Notes from a German Building Site

“Let them be! We shall sit with lighter bosoms on the hearth, to see the ashes of our fires turn gray and cold.”
― Charles Dickens, Hard Times

“I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat mirages danced with each other and then they danced through each other and then they joined hands and danced around each other. Eventually the watcher joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.”
― Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories

“We all strayed, in that depressingly mature and adult way, in three different directions. It was the sort of drift that only death or grave illness can interrupt”
― Adrian Duncan, Midfield Dynamo