"You cannot teach a bird to fly, only how to let go his branch and begin to fall."

“The greatest of the changes that science has brought is the acuity of change; the greatest novelty the extent of novelty.”

“The night has made up its mind. It’s we who are too slow, who move in the wake of events already decided for us, who refuse, who are too weak or too simple, or are perhaps, strictly, unable to understand”

Source : Amanda Coplin (2012). “The Orchardist”, p.65, Hachette UK

“I just fell in love with the integrity of the music & that was it.”

“I can't always be making 'British films.' Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?”

“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”

“Solid, lasting missionary work is done on our knees.”

Source : "Behind the Ranges: The Life-changing Story of J.O. Fraser" by Geraldine Taylor, Singapore: OMF International (IHQ) Ltd., (p. 52), 1998.

“We'll bury our mothers and fathers - shuttling our children off for sleepovers, jumping on red-eyes, telling eachother stories that hurt to hear, about gasping, agonal breaths, hospice nurses, scars and bruises and scabs, and how skin papers shortly after a person passes. We will nod in agreement that it is as much an honor to witness a person leave this world as it is to watch a person come into it.”

“I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.”