Jan

“Attachment masquerades as Love, Pity as Compassion and Indifference as Equanimity.”
― Louise Penny, The Cruelest Month

“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost,
For the want of a shoe the horse was lost,
For the want of a horse the rider was lost,
For the want of a rider the battle was lost,
For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost,
And all for the want of a horseshoe-nail.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.”
― Mark Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve

“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.