Marsha

“A lion does not flinch at laughter coming from a hyena.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“She philosophically noted dates as they came past in the revolution of the year. Her own birthday, and every other day individualized by incidents in which she had taken some share. She suddenly thought, one afternoon, that there was another date, of greater importance than all those; that of her own death; a day which lay sly and unseen among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it?”
― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

“The rope that pulls you from the flood can become a noose around your neck.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed