Steven Anderson

“The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.”
― Thomas Paine, A Letter Addressed to the Abbe Raynal on the Affairs of North America

“The big fish ate the little and”
― Catherine Gildiner, Too Close to the Falls

“The big fish ate the little and that was how it worked. To me that”
― Catherine Gildiner, Too Close to the Falls

“But the truth is, most of the things that change the course of our lives happen in fleeting unguarded moments; grief buckling us at the knees; fear shattering through us like buckshot; love pulling us out on an unseen tide. And finding ourselves in the grip of these overpowering emotions, we then invent reasons based on the flimsy evidence we have accrued why they have happened, trying to make sense of the insensible with armloads of self-justification”
― Alexandra Fuller, Leaving Before the Rains Come