Karsten Baldwin

“The things that make us happy make us wise. ”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

“He learned, though slowly, what all great harrowed lovers learn: that love is what most surely compels love -- is perhaps, except for brute force, the only thing that does, though only (and this was the terrible gift he had been given) when the lover truly believes, as August could, that when his love is strong enough it must surely be returned -- and August's was.”
― John Crowley, Little, Big

“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune