Patrick Cabeza

“Lincoln motioned for Hay to join him in the President’s office. It was Hay’s self-appointed task to keep Lincoln moving when he tarried too long with visitors. Hay could never understand Lincoln’s endless patience with even the most audacious of bores or boors. “They get so little, most of them,” Lincoln would say, as if in explanation of the time wasted.”
― Gore Vidal, Lincoln

“What art was there, known to love or cunning, by which one pressed through into those secret chambers?”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Raising her eyebrows at the discrepancy – that was what she was thinking, this was what she was doing – ladling out soup – she felt, more and more strongly, outside that eddy; or as if a shade had fallen, and, robbed of colour, she saw things truly. The room (she looked round it) was very shabby. There was no beauty anywhere.”
― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”
― Margaret Lee Runbeck