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“And that's all we are Jefferson, all of us on this earth, a piece of drifting wood. until we - each of us, individually- decide to become something else. I am still that piece of drifting wood, and those out there are no better. But you can be better.”
Source : Ernest J. Gaines (2015). “A Lesson Before Dying”, p.191, Serpent's Tail
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“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”
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“Being respectful of extraordinary work that has happened in the last thirty-five years is not the same thing as it reflecting my values. I'm not sorry that gays can now enter the military and I'm not sorry that we can marry, but frankly I come from a moment in time, a radical vision in time that never made marriage or the military my criteria of success.”
Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
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“All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.”
Source : Marjorie M. Liu (2009). “Darkness Calls”, p.210, Penguin
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“Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.”
Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.71, Penguin
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“Well: Love and Pain Be kinfolks twain; Yet would, Oh would I could Love again.”
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“To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.”
Source : Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.87
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“As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.”
