Monica

“Fiecare om trebuie să lase ceva în urma lui atunci când moare, așa spunea bunicul meu. Un copil, o carte sau un tablou, o casă, un zid înălțat de mâna lui sau o pereche de pantofi. Sau o grădină. Ceva ce mâna ta a atins în așa fel, încât sufletul tău să aibă unde se refugia atunci când îți sosește ceasul; iar când oamenii se uită la copacul ori la floarea pe care le-ai sădit, tu ești acolo. Nu contează ce faci, spunea bunicul, atâta timp cât schimbi un lucru față de cum era înainte ca tu să-l atingi transformându-l în ceva care să îți semene de îndată ce-ți iei mâna de pe el. Deosebirea dintre omul care doar tunde iarba și un grădinar adevărat constă în atingere, spuse el. Cel care tunde iarba e ca și inexistent, grădinarul va trăi o veșnicie.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The way we are living,
timorous or bold,
will have been our life.”
― Seamus Heaney

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien