Gentry White

“We skip the moments like stones.”
― Markus Zusak, Bridge of Clay

“You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“This so frequent abortion of man's dearest projects must be taken as a proof that the deeds of earth, however etherealized by piety or genius, are without value, except as exercises and manifestations of the spirit. In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Artist of the Beautiful

“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains