Mike Matozzi

“The truth - that love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved. In a position of utter desolation, when man cannot express himself in positive action, when his only achievement may consist in enduring his sufferings in the right way - an honorable way - in such a position man can, through loving contemplation of the image he carries of his beloved, achieve fulfillment.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

“He checked all the correct interaction boxes and then went back to his books. Because there was an abyss, and books contained magical incantations to raise what was hidden there:”
― Stephen King, The Institute

“Her father was gone. Graveyards might have housed the dead below the ground, but hat lay above was always for the living; they were places where people come to deal with the break between what their lives had once been and what they are now.”
― Alex North, The Shadows

“Sometimes I wonder what is happening to their brains, the way our devices are making us all ADD. We're like birds pecking at a feeder for the next fix of seed...”
― Joanne Tompkins, What Comes After