Basma

“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

“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

“How lame this is, how small, terrible. Or maybe it is beautiful. I can't decide if what I am doing is beautiful and noble and right, or small and disgusting.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius