Albert Welner

“I can’t cry so I have to laugh.”
― Maria Nhambu, Africa's Child

“Be too anchored in the Now, to still be carrying the past”
― Daniel Mangena

“Dally raised the gun, and I thought: You blasted fool. They don’t know you’re only bluffing. And even as the policemen’s guns spit fire into the night I knew that was what Dally wanted. He was jerked half around by the impact of the bullets, then slowly crumpled with a look of grim triumph on his face. He was dead before he hit the ground. But I knew that was what he wanted, even as the lot echoed with the cracks of shots, even as I begged silently—Please, not him . . . not him and Johnny both—I knew he would be dead, because Dally Winston wanted to be dead and he always got what he wanted.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“I am me, a unique individual who aspires to be happier than she already is.”
― L.C. Conn