Nancy Felemonski

“Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?” “Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you’re thinking about life and about the world.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“If Western Civilization were a person, we would be directing it to the nearest meeting of War-Preparers Anonymous. We would be telling it to stand up before the meeting and say, “My name is Western Civilization. I am a compulsive war-preparer. I have lost everything I ever cared about. I should have come here long ago. I first hit bottom in World War I.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut

“she’d seen the spark in his fledgling soul, and no one can ever amount to anything in this life without someone else to believe in him.”
― Paul Auster, Timbuktu

“Apology number two: I am sorry for the damage that storytellers have done to the minds of the young. This is not my surrender to the Moral Majority, which burns my books. I will continue in my writing to hint where babies really come from, and that God shouldn’t be put in charge of everything until we get to know Him a little better, and that our exalted leaders are just like a lot of nitwits I went to high school with, and that American soldiers have been known to curse when wounded, and so on. I don’t apologize for any of that.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Vonnegut by the Dozen: Twelve Pieces by Kurt Vonnegut