Mark Owen

“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“A noble craft, but somehow a most melancholy! All noble things are touched with that.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars”
― Seneca