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

“Perhaps memory is not merely the preservation of a moment in the mind, but the process of repeatedly returning to it, carefully breaking it up in parts and assembling them again until we can make sense of what we remember.”
― Laila Lalami, The Other Americans

“He thought of Christ with his cross and his crown of thorns and wondered who had it worse.”
― T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain