Gricelda Dial

“Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.”
― Arthur Miller

“What? Don't British women know how to use their knees?”
― Shannon Hale, Austenland

“There is another physical law that teases me, too: the Doppler Effect. The sound of anything coming at you- a train, say, or the future- has a higher pitch than the sound of the same thing going away. If you have perfect pitch and a head for mathematics you can compute the speed of the object by the interval between its arriving and departing sounds. I have neither perfect pitch nor a head for mathematics, and anyway who wants to compute the speed of history? Like all falling bodies, it constantly accelerates. But I would like to hear your life as you heard it, coming at you, instead of hearing it as I do, a somber sound of expectations reduced, desires blunted, hopes deferred or abandoned, chances lost, defeats accepted, griefs borne.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

“Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.”
― Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance