Wilmer Penza

“I know something now I didn't know a year ago," said Quoyle. "Petal wasn't any good. And I think maybe that is why I loved her."

"Yes," said Wavey. "Same with Herold. It's like you feel to yourself that's all you deserve. And the worse it gets the more it seems true, that you got it coming to you or it wouldn't be that way. You know what I mean?”
― Annie Proulx, The Shipping News

“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.”
― Alice Walker

“بعد عشرين عاما من الآن .. ستكون أكثر إحباطًا بسبب الأشياء التي لم تحققها وليس بسبب الأشياء التي حققتها !
لذلك.. ألق حبل الشراع ، وأبحر بعيدا عن الميناء الآمن ، استغل الريح لدفع أشرعتك .. إستكشف.. و احلم.. و اكتشف !”
― مارك توين

“Because men
are killing the forests
the fairy tales are running away.
The spindle doesn't know
whom to prick,
the little girl's hands
that her father has chopped off,
haven't a single tree to catch hold of,
the third wish remains unspoken.
King Thrushbeard no longer owns one thing.
Children can no longer get lost.
The number seven means no more than exactly seven.
Because men have killed the forests,
the fairy tales are trotting off to the cities
and end badly.”
― Gunter Grass, Rat