Mkeasling

“I didn’t even need to know the specific that was troubling her, because to me her halting voice easily stood for the general woe that hangs in the air, even on life’s happiest days.”
― Steve Martin, The Pleasure of My Company

“I reckon when the darkness is close to us it is a friend. But when we sorter push it away from us—divorce ourselves from it, so to speak, with lantern light—it becomes an enemy.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Stories

“I think, after all, I’m happiest being a foreigner. Perhaps there should be a Homo sapiens passport? I feel less and less connected to individual states, and more and more connected to human beings.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers