Daniel J

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.”
― Lysander Spooner

“not all of us were drawn to Prince Charming. Some little girls ate up the stories of ball gowns and castles and knights who slayed the dragon . . . While some little girls read the stories of a dark pathway into the woods . . . a twisted mansion with black windows and fog covering the grounds . . . That’s where we wanted to go. No matter what we might find inside . . .”
― Sophie Lark, There Are No Saints

“Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm”
― Winston Churchill

“And if you can't come into the room without my feeling all over me a ripple of flame, & if, wherever you touch me, a heart beats under your touch, & if, when you hold me, & I don't speak, it's because all the words in me seem to have become throbbing pulses, & all my thoughts are a great golden blur" (Joslin 20).”
― Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome [with Biographical Introduction]