"The present is always the best, even when its rough."

-- Julien Torma

“To say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching upon the floor.”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent in the Grave”, p.10, MIRA
“She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is one of our enduring tragedies. It wouldn't have been much, and it wouldn't have been useful, but it would have been something that reflected the gravity and the sadness inside her. Instead, she had snapped at him for being a loser. It was as if she were trying to find a handhold on the boulder of her feelings, and had merely ended up with grit under her nails.”
“My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.”
“In the United States 95% of the people who win elections have the most money. That's it. So, money is a big part of elections. But that happens all the time.”
“I know when to go and when to stop. I'm the red, the yellow, and the green light. That's me in a nutshell.”
“Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.”
“When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to put that kind of pressure on myself.”
“In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons trying to act in unison. I believe that in the heart of each human being there is something which I can only describe as a child of darkness who is equal and complementary to the more obvious child of light.”

Source : Laurens Van Der Post (2013). “Feather Fall: An Anthology of Laurens Van Der Post”, p.35, Random House

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