"Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing."

“I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s eyes; clues that demonstrate that someone else has felt the same indescribable feelings, seen the same things or passed by the spot even if it was by candlelight three hundred years ago. It means everything, like finding footprints in the sand of a deserted island.”

Source : Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

“Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards.”

“The only good thing about the good old days is they're gone.”

“Our interaction with our friends, for instance, is in large part an interaction with representations in our own head of the people before us. That's why a friend can surprise or disappoint us.”

“An abundance of some good things is perfectly compatible with the scarcity of others; that life is everywhere precarious, man everywhere small.”

“Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.”

“Better to have, and not need, than to need, and not have.”

“Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2013). “The Earth's Children Series 6-Book Bundle: The Clan of the Cave Bear, The Valley of Horses, The Mammoth Hunters, The Plains of Passage, The Shelters of Stone, The Land of Painted Caves”, p.1963, Bantam