Dan

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”
― Stephen Vincent Benét, Western Star

“We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
― Robert Burns

“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
― Nadine Gordimer