Tracie Maurizio

“You can't expect everybody to think of you all the time. Nobody knows you. And you never talk to anyone!”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“While some of his men were mounting a machine gun in the entrance, Hitler jumped up on a table and to attract attention fired a revolver shot toward the ceiling.”
― William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany

“After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?

The Feet, mechanical, go round –
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –

This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –”
― Emily Dickenson, Selected Poems

“There are no happy endings, endings are sad-so let's have a happy beginning and a happy middle.”
― Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic