Silva Orenstein

“And now Anderson stood looking at his father. His hands were trembling with eagerness, extending toward him, wanting his father to embrace him. He wanted to love it back to life for all those lost times, for all those times of hope. “Permission to sit, sir?”
― Behcet Kaya, Murder on the Naval Base

“The child is father to the man," and with such training, whatever may be his natural disposition, it cannot well be otherwise than that, on arriving at maturity, the sufferings and miseries of the slave will be looked upon with entire indifference.”
― Solomon Northup, 12 Years a Slave

“Genius is finding the invisible link between things.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“God knows far more about living a life of joy and blessings than we do.”
― Randy Loubier, Slow Brewing Tea