Pat

“The heart doesn't know how to quit because it doesn't know how to lie. You lift your eyes from the page, fall into the smile of a perfect stranger, and the searching starts all over again. It's not what it was. It's always different. It's always something else. But the new forest that grows back in a scarred heart is sometimes wilder and stronger than it was before the fire. And if you stay there, in that shine within yourself, the new place for the light, forgiving everything and never giving up, sooner or later you'll always find yourself right back there where love and beauty made the world: at the beginning. The beginning. The beginning.”
― Gregory David Roberts, The Mountain Shadow

“The airlines have to let crazy people carry their animals on their laps. The government says so (...) You just call the airline people and tell them you need to bring your 'comfort animal' (...) It can be a dog, a monkey, a rabbit, but no way can it be a cat. The government doesn't consider a cat as comforting anybody”
― Chuck Palahniuk

“It always seems impossible until it's done.”
― Nelson Mandela

“They, who have never gone away - how should they know what parting means, that it means dying a little?”
― Peter Mayne, A Year in Marrakesh