Jamie

“We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
― Eduardo Galeano

“If the grape is made of wine, then perhaps we are the words that tell who we are”
― Eduardo Hughes Galeano, The Book of Embraces