Basma

“blessed be
she
who is
both
furious
and
magnificent”
― Taylor Rhodes, calloused: a field journal

“Childhood is a naturally unhappy period of our existence, Lillian. It was Walt Disney who invented the notion that it has to be happy, simply to make money.”
― Isabel Allende, The Japanese Lover

“Part of the resistance to Darwin and Wallace derives from our difficulty in imagining the passage of the millennia, much less the aeons. What does seventy million years mean to beings who live only one-millionth as long? We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“I have often tried to imagine how I might have acted differently. Always I end up in the same place.”
― Lynn I. Wilson, The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality