Paul Cirone

“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”
― Jack London, The Call of the Wild

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good women to do nothing.”
― Kate Atkinson, Life After Life

“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
― Honoré de Balzac