‘The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.’
– John 1:5
‘The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it.’
– John 1:5
‘The poet writes his poems out of his rage.’
‘Life taught me that love was risky. Death taught me to love even more.’
‘Mom was one of those unbelievably sly, influential drunks who could hook you in, all the while cutting you down. It was borderline sociopath, minus the murder.’
‘My basic belief is that if you don’t profit from harm to anyone else, then you’re all right. You’re on the right track. When you perceive that your action is going to injure someone, you must avoid it. If harm does happen, you must try to mend it. If I can see harm coming to someone, then I won’t do or I won’t advocate it.’
‘I have broken out of the cage that encloses me, and opened a shutter to the outside world. I feel no chains. I can fly higher and higher because the bars of my cage are open.’
‘Heroes are just people who do what needs to be done.’
‘I am carving my own niche in this world of craziness.’
‘I will not be like a bird bred in a cage, I thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.’
– Circe – Madeline Miller
‘The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.’