Dave

“One thing you will discover is that life is based less than you think on what you've learned and much more than you think on what you have inside you from the beginning.”
― Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case

“If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War

“Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time not to have at its end the absence of time, and the absence of time not to have been preceded by time, neither would be of any consequence.”
― Mark Helprin, A Soldier of the Great War