“The scratching of pencil on paper soothes me as I look ahead to days and weeks and months to come. I wonder when this all ends and we take stock of ourselves, like refugees from a vast war, how my words will be received by those I have failed. Does understanding lead to forgiveness, or do fragments of betrayal linger, keeping normal beyond our grasp?”
Source: The Covid Chronicles
“(Letters from prison) speak of pain and isolation and missed warnings, of moments where lives could have been lifted but instead teetered and splintered, their pieces a mere hint of the whole.”
Source: The Covid Chronicles
“Seven minutes later, the final recipe for recovery of the great nation was read out to him when he stood, bending over the coffee table in front of the two financial doctors, while the water still dripped onto the carpet from the wet bath towel wrapped around the waist of the new Prime Minister of India.”
Source: Minister’s Mistress - Not only the sins come calling
“A nation does not starve because it lacks food, but because power forgets who it is meant to serve.”
“Ex ira nascitur bellum
(War is born of anger)”
Source: The Sum of All Our Anger: Civil War 2.0
“The music we enjoy today is only possible because of polyphony.”
Source: The Goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined
“She--the unnamed lady--simply drew his hands to the Paleolithic places men always have grown tumid from feeling, like the outward cradle of the hips within which a fetus will reside and her breasts that will nourish it, once born.”
Source: In the Country of the Blind
“There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those who function so they can give something.”
Source: Stunned
“There are three types of people in this world, Very. (He called me Very.) There are those who make the world worse, those who make no difference and those who make the world better. Be one who makes the world better, if you can.”
Source: How the Penguins Saved Veronica
“The Talmud teaches that there are four kinds of people in the world.
The first person says, What's yours is mine.
The second person says, What's yours is yours.
The third person says, What's mine is mine.
And the fourth person says, What's mine is yours.
Which one are you?”
Source: All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life