Ben

“I saw William Blackett’s escaping sail already far from land, and Captain Littlepage was sitting behind his closed window as I passed by, watching for some one who never came. I tried to speak to him, but he did not see me. There was a patient look on the old man’s face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.”
― Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

“Dive deep. Drown willingly”
― Ted Dekker, White: The Great Pursuit

“A kindred spirit? Perhaps--if not kindred to the man he is, or was, then to the sort of man he wouldn't mind being.”
― Doug Dorst, S.

“A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63