Judith

“At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray

“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there.’ . . .The land is flat, the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them.”
― Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“Dictators and other leaders often inflate their own status and power by convincing their people that they are under attack by some “other”—any group that looks, or acts, or believes, differently.”
― Henry Oster, The Stable Boy of Auschwitz