"Things must be felt with the heart."

-- Helen Keller

“There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.”

Source : "The Vietnam War: An Intimate History". Book by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, September 5, 2017.
“Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade”

Source : Jacqueline Carey (2011). “Kushiel's Dart”, p.210, Pan Macmillan
“It took me a few seconds to draw it, but it took me 34 years to learn how to draw it in a few seconds.”
“I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.”
“It was a shut door, and shut doors meant things kept to yourself. There were reasons you kept things to yourself, and they usually werenâ€™t good, happy, open-air sort of reasons. Still, I didnâ€™t want to see behind that door. You think you want to know everything there is to know about everything there is to know. But you donâ€™t. Not really. I had pried the lid off of the dark places of another person before, I had seen inside. Down deep. You donâ€™t want to look at whatâ€™s rotting there.”
“Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.”
“Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!”
“Oregon welcomed me like a beloved child, enfolded me in her cool arms, shushed my turbulent thoughts, and promised peace through her whispering pines.”

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