Timika Depiro

“Peace be with all the world! My blessing on my friends! My forgiveness to my enemies! For I am in the realm of quiet!”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“King Norodom of Cambodia replied, “Lt. General Kawamura of the Japanese Imperial Army, It is my understanding that you Japanese are granting my people a partial freedom which is always subject to the approval of any laws we make by the Japanese Government in Tokyo!”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two

“His absence is so big it's like he's there.”
― Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go

“he waits for the kid to decide whether to pull the gun up or simply to drop it - and all the while, even as he tracks the progress of the gun, he is also watching the kid's face, to see whether he is dangerous or simply frightened. is there a more beautiful example of a snap judgment? this is the gift of training and expertise - the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking