Greg Stratman

“Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”
― John Updike

“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.”
― Edith Wharton

“If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.”
― John Updike, Rabbit, Run

“What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.”
― Edith Wharton