Bridget Park

“who would cry out to the petals on the ground to stay, knowing as we must, how the vivacity of what was is married to the vivacity of what will be?”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“That life—whatever else it is—is short.”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“Soon," he said in his letter. They said "soon" to each other often, and "soon" gave their plan the weight of something real.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah

“Weapons never stay in their boxes. Once a weapon has been manufactured, sooner or later someone will use it. If it were possible to bring about true and lasting peace by force of arms, then we should turn all our factories into weapons factories. But that is impossible. Even though it is difficult to try to bring about peace through inner transformation, it is the only way of establishing sustainable peace in the world.”
― Dalai Lama XIV, Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace: The Essential Life and Teachings