Tattooed_mummy

“Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?”
― Anita Desai

“it is better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respectable front and Trump did not. One manifestation of this outlaw personality, for both Trump and Clinton, was their brand of womanizing—and indeed, harassing. Even among world-class womanizers and harassers, they seemed exceptionally free of doubt or hesitation.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“O my mistress, do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune but all the dead are dead alike!”
― C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy