Tom Trueb

“Most plates move relatively slowly—the North American Plate, for example, is shifting westward at about twenty millimeters a year, somewhat less than the rate at which human fingernails grow. The Pacific Plate is, by contrast, something of a speed demon: it moves ten times as rapidly, and in a habitual northwesterly direction, covering something like two centimeters each year.”
― Simon Winchester, Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers

“WE ARE BORN IN THE WILDS OF DARKNESS AND DIE
ON THE PATHWAY TO ENLIGHTENMENT.”
― Christopher Fowler, Bryant & May Off the Rails

“Instead of accepting that, I am writing this. I realize that what motivates most other writers in the world is the desire to have control over their obituary.”
― Paul Theroux, Mr. Bones

“Pallone spoke of a “fragmented health system” failing children. And he ended his remarks with a quote from Nobel laureate and poet Gabriela Mistral: “Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time. His bones are being formed. His blood is being made, his mind is being developed. To him, we cannot say tomorrow. His name is today.”
― Mary Otto, Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America