Donita Rattner

“When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.”
― Mary Doria Russell, A Thread of Grace

“We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.”
― Tana French, In the Woods

“Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death.”
― Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend