Marie Martin

“Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people.”
― Barbara Vine, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have a huge variety of needs and dangers.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison