Elizbeth Gioia

“I can’t imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would’ve brought.”
― Gayle Forman, Where She Went

“The American generals could only think in terms of large armies and huge battles. They believed or hoped that an enemy who chose to hide in jungles and tunnels would quickly be flushed out by American fire-power and then die in open battle.”
― Michael G. Kramer, A Gracious Enemy

“Occupy your mind with good thoughts, or the enemy will fill them with bad ones. ...”
― Thomas More

“That something is everywhere and always amiss is part of the very stuff of creation. It is as though each clay form had baked into it, a blue streak of nonbeing, a shaded emptiness like a bubble that not only shapes its very structure but that also causes it to list and ultimately explode. We could have planned things more mercifully, perhaps, but our plan would never get off the drawing board until we agreed to the very comprising terms that are the only ones that being offers.”
― Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek