Ryan

“He smiled at her as a man might smile at a memory.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“But you must give him some sign, some sign that you love him... or he'll never be a man. All his life he'll feel guilty and alone unless you release him.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”
― Rumi