"Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination."

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Source : "Phantom". Book by Susan Kay, 1990.

Susan Kay

#Memories Quotes #Regret Quotes #Firefly Quotes

“Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.”
“In a word, we owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc., but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General.”
“There's nothing like having a great friends when you see them, you get that joy - that you can't really compare it with anything else.”
“We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books
“Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.”
“There is no God, cry the masses more and more vociferously; and with the loss of God man loses his sense of values â€” is, as it were, massacred because he feels himself of no account.”

Source : Karl Jaspers (2014). “Man in the Modern Age (Routledge Revivals)”, p.91, Routledge
“To charge Snowden with espionage is a severe form of political persecution.”

Source : "Ecuador or Another Country Should Grant Asylum to Snowden, CEPR Co-Director Says". cepr.net. June 23, 2013.
“You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”

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