Daniel Thomas Daly

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“One is always half mad when one is shy of people.”
― Robert Walser, Jakob von Gunten

“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”
― Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers

“These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?”
― Tennessee Williams, Collected Stories