Domenic

“But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“I'm glad you like adverbs — I adore them; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.”
― Henry James

“My dreams are worthless, my plans are dust, my goals are impossible.

All are of no value unless they are followed by action.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World

“With murder, the victim is gone, and not forced to deal with what happened to her. The family must deal with it, but not the victim. But rape is much worse. The victim has a lifetime of coping, trying to understand, of asking questions, and the worst part, of knowing the rapist is still alive and may someday escape or be released. Every hour of every day, the victim thinks of the rape and asks herself a thousand questions. She relives it, step by step, minute by minute, and it hurts just as bad.
Perhaps the most horrible crime of all is the violent rape of a child. A woman who is raped has a pretty good idea why it happened. Some animal was filled with hatred, anger and violence. But a child? A ten-year-old child? Suppose you're a parent. Imagine yourself trying to explain to your child why she was raped. Imagine yourself trying to explain why she cannot bear children.”
― John Grisham, A Time to Kill