Caitlin

“She remembered wanting to make a pilgrimage to Gautama in order to see the face of one perfect man, to inhale his peace, but that instead of him, now she had found Siddartha, and it was good, just as good, as having seen the other.”
― Hermann Hesse, Sidhartha

“It is time for us to keep in mind that it requires more to make and preserve a Republic than the mere absence of a king, and that when a Republic decays its soul is apt to die first, which its outward form may still be lasting.”
― Carl Schurz

“Treat all people as if they are real, because who knows, perhaps they are.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“At first, she was disappointed, but she was patient, infinitely patient, rooted to the ground by the boredom of the days.”
― T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain