"Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable."

“So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.”

“You've no fear of heights," puffed the girl. "None," I said. "I've heard that about you.”

Source : Kenneth Oppel (2005). “Skybreaker”, HarperCollins

“Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all runs together, becomes a watery soup. Portmanteau days, imploded years. Like a bad actor, memory always goes for effect, abjuring motivation, consistency, good sense.”

Source : James Sallis (2012). “Black Hornet”, p.13, Oldcastle Books

“I trained and worked really hard all my life in dance classes. I always fell into the shadows of my mother, and it was hard for me to really realize that I had done the work. Yes, she took me to the best teachers, but I did the work.”

“The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.”

“If you are curious, you will learn. If you are desperate, you will discover.”

“For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.”

“Everything has a spirit and it's all connected. If you think about that, if you live your life by it, then you're less likely to cause any hurt. It's like how our bodies go back into the ground when we die, so that connects us to the earth. If you dump trash, you're dumping it on your and my ancestors. Or to bring it down to its simplest level: treat everything and everybody the way you want to be treated, because when you hurt someone, you're only hurting yourself.”