Janine

“Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad ever lasts for very very long”
― Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture

“More and more, as I think about history, I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and that the preservation of this spirit is more important than any social system whatsoever.”
― Sinclair Lewis, It Can't Happen Here

“During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world was come. Credulity is always greatest in times of calamity. Prophecies of all sorts are rife on such occasions, and are readily believed, whether for good or evil. During the great plague, which ravaged all Europe, between the years 1345 and 1350, it was generally considered that the end of the world was at hand. Pretended prophets were to be found in all the principal cities of Germany, France, and Italy, predicting that within ten years the trump of the Archangel would sound, and the Saviour appear in the clouds to call the earth to judgment.”
― Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds

“To write, you have to want something to survive you.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of the Lost Child