" Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. "

— Haruki Murakami

" The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof. "

— Barbara Kingsolver

" The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye. "

— Jimi Hendrix

" Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named, not good. "

— John Milton

" Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. "

— Thomas Carlyle

" I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. "

— Sigmund Freud