Marina Pavlichenko

“To pause one’s life for another was a profound gesture of caring. What greater gift can one give another person but time?”
― G.L. Carriger, The 5th Gender

“A parent must do two things: teach the child a way to earn a living, and to swim.”
― S.J. Schwaidelson, Lingua Galactica

“I'm gonna cry all over your hair.”
― Lanford Wilson, Burn This

“You know, I grew up down here, and my mama always took me to church when I was a kid. But the church folk you got down here now - especially the white church folk - they scare the bejesus out of me."
"Why is that?"
"Because they're all nuts, Harry. Every damned one of them.”
― William Heffernan, The Dead Detective