Jim

“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.”
― Peter Shaffer, Five Finger Exercise

“There must be many of us whose lives have been divided into a before and after, with an accident, a death, a crime, a crisis, some moment or year or relationship that came between and changed everything. I want to see how your life moved forward from that point of division.”
― Kathryn Harrison, While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family

“Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl

“You will hear thunder and remember me,
and think: she wanted storms...”
― Anna Akhmatova