Trini

“We two have paddled in the stream,
from morning sun till dine;
But seas between us broad have roared
since days of long ago.”
― Robert Burns

“Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Respecto a los perros, nadie que no haya convivido con ellos conocerá nunca, a fondo, hasta dónde llegan las palabras generosidad, compañía y lealtad. Nadie que no haya sentido en el brazo un hocico húmedo intentando interponerse entre el libro que estás leyendo y tú, en demanda de una caricia, o haya contemplado esa noble cabeza ladeada, esos ojos grandes, oscuros, fieles, mirar en espera de un gesto o una simple palabra, podrá entender del todo lo que me crepitó en la sangre cuando leí aquellas líneas; eso de que en las peleas de perros, el animal, si su amo está con él, lo da todo.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Perros e hijos de perra

“Humans, as a rule, don't like mad people unless they are good at painting, and only then once they are dead. But the definition of mad, on Earth, seems to be very unclear and inconsistent. What is perfectly sane in one era turns out to be insane in another. The earliest humans walked around naked with no problem. Certain humans, in humid rainforests mainly, still do so. So, we must conclude that madness is sometimes a question of time, and sometimes of postcode.

Basically, the key rule is, if you want to appear sane on Earth you have to be in the right place, wearing the right clothes, saying the right things, and only stepping on the right kind of grass.”
― Matt Haig, The Humans