“I actually read history. It’s like reading prophecy, you know.”
― Persepolis Rising
― Persepolis Rising
“When Joseph died on September 21, 1904, the agency physician reported the cause of death as “a broken heart.”
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
― Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“No point writing when the spirit doth not lead.”
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
― Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems
“That, I guess, is the language of the Rohirrim," the Elf commented, "for it is like to this land itself; rich and rolling in part, and else hard and stern as the mountains. But I cannot guess what it means, save that it is laden with the sadness of mortal men.”
― The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
― The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
“...it is not always possible to restore one’s boundaries after they have been blurred and made permeable by a relationship: try as we might, we cannot reconstitute ourselves as the autonomous beings we previously imagined ourselves to be. Something of us is now outside, and something of the outside is now within us.”
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
― The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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