Anand ram

“Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand

“Men it is who think they can rule others’ lives, but have no bonds to them. Do you think that to bond or not to bond is for you alone to decide? My heart is my own. I give it where I will. I will not give it to one who thrusts me aside.”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“If the Albanian Museum of Atheism followed its Soviet prototype, the exhibits would have traced the ascent of Man from amoebae to Enver Hoxha. We”
― Anthony Daniels, The Wilder Shores Of Marx: Journeys In A Vanishing World

“How could they see anything but the shadows if they were never allowed to move their heads? Plato”
― Jonathan Heston, The Unlimited Self: Destroy Limiting Beliefs, Uncover Inner Greatness, and Live the Good Life