LiteraryMarie

“The problem is not only with what’s right and wrong but the problem is with who decides about what’s right and wrong.”
― Zaman Ali, MORALITY An Individual Dilemma

“When you preserve skies,
you preserve lands.
When you preserve lands,
you preserve trees.
When you preserve trees,
you preserve forests.
When you preserve forests,
you preserve animals.
When you preserve animals,
you preserve people.

When you preserve streams,
you preserve rivers.
When you preserve rivers,
you preserve lakes.
When you preserve lakes,
you preserve seas.
When you preserve seas,
you preserve oceans.
When you preserve oceans,
you preserve the world.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“A handwritten letter is a treat for me now—quaint!—and you couldn’t pay me to pick up your phone call. God help you if you leave a voice mail.”
― Jen Lancaster, Welcome to the United States of Anxiety: Observations from a Reforming Neurotic

“I suppose I could start at the beginning, but to what end? That’s a fun sentence.”
― Namrata Patel, The Candid Life of Meena Dave