Carlos Simoes

“Even a life raft is only supposed to get you from the sinking ship back to land, you were never intended to live in the life raft, to drift years on end, in sight of land but never close enough.”
― Nick Flynn, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City

“Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life a new again.”
― Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses

“We are the voices of the trees, Willa, and he words of the wolves, We are the force that carries the birds in the sky and the magic that turns the sunlight into life. We are the parts that are missing, the invisible, the in-between. When we live and when we die, we are the soul of the forest, in whatever form it must take.”
― Robert Beatty, Willa of the Wood – Die Geister der Bäume: Band 2

“People are like water in a pond where you cannot see the bottom. You think you know where it is shallow and where it is deep but it's only when you have to dive in head first that you find out where it is truly deep.”
― J.L. Witterick