Prof Moriarty

“I am afraid that we may be raising a generation of young people who will grow up afraid to love, afraid to give themselves completely to another person, because they'll have seen how much it hurts to take the risk of loving and have it not work out. I'm afraid they'll grow up looking for intimacy without risk, for pleasure without significant emotional investment. They'll be so fearful of the pain of disappointment that they'll forgo the possibilities of love and joy.”
― Harold Kushner

“Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but
with kindness and affection for those who love
you, and not with hatred for your enemies.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“But I have one want which I have never yet
been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as a most severe evil, I
have no friend, Margaret: when I am glowing
with the enthusiasm of success, there will be
none to participate my joy; if I am assailed by
disappointment, no one will endeavor to sustain me in dejection. I shall commit my
thoughts to paper, it is true; but that is a poor
medium for the communication of feeling. I
desire the company of a man who could sympathize with me, whose eyes would reply to
mine. You may deem me romantic, my dear
sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend. I
have no one near me, gentle yet courageous,
possessed of a cultivated as well as of a capacious mind, whose tastes are like my own, to
approve or amend my plans. How would such
a friend repair the faults of your poor brother!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein

“We rest; a dream has power to poison sleep.
We rise; one wand'ring thought pollutes the
day.
We feel, conceive, or reason; laugh or weep,
Embrace fond woe, or cast our cares away;
It is the same: for, be it joy or sorrow,
The path of its departure still is free.
Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow;
Nought may endure but mutability!”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein