"No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain."

“An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own”

“I find that more and more I'm trying to entertain myself when I'm working, because I know the work's going to go to a horrible place.”

“I don’t know why life isn’t constructed to be seamless and safe, why we make such glaring mistakes, things fall so short of our expectations, and our hearts get broken and out kids do scary things and our parents get old and don’t always remember to put pants on before they go out for a stroll. I don’t know why it’s not more like it is in the movies, why things don’t come out neatly and lessons can’t be learned when you’re in the mood for learning them, why love and grace often come in such motley packaging.”

“I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.”

“Some people make it hard for me to believe in universal evolution.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.98, New Victoria Publishers

“If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.”

“No one can master the past; one can only interrogate it.”

Source : Charles S. Maier (1998). “The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and German National Identity, With a new preface”, p.136, Harvard University Press

“Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.”