After the Dark

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

"His one sorrow was not solitude, it was that the other gulls refused to believe the glory of flight that awaited them; they refused to open their eyes and see."

Richard Bach, "Jonathan Livingston Seagull"

He laughed, touched the rope, and set the pulley to working. And the pulley moaned, like an old weathervane which the wind has long since forgotten.
"Do you hear?" said the little prince. "We have wakened the well, and it is singing..."

Antonie de Saint Exupery, "The little prince"