Raed

“I have heard people say love is weak but they’re wrong—love is strong. In nearly everyone it trumps all other things—patriotism and ambition, religion and upbringing. And of every kind of love—the epic and the small, the noble and the base—the one that a parent has for their child is the greatest of them all.”
― Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim

“mais oü sont les neiges d'antan”
― Anonymous

“They have a notion, that when people are met together, a short silence does much improve conversation: this I found to be true; for during those little intermissions of talk, new ideas would arise in their minds, which very much enlivened the discourse.”
― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence—but more generally takes the form of apathy. . . .”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness