Mark

“tchotchke”
― Margarita Montimore, Oona Out of Order

“His wife even insisted on buying a couple of Cutco knives from me when Scoggin told her what I did for a living.”
― Rysa Walker, Now, Then, and Everywhen

“love and be loved is worth the risk of potential loss.”
― Royd Tolkien, There's a Hole in my Bucket: A Journey of Two Brothers

“Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things. We really must understand that the lust for affluence in contemporary society is psychotic. It is psychotic because it has completely lost touch with reality. We crave things we neither need nor enjoy. “We buy things we do not want to impress people we do not like.”2 Where planned obsolescence leaves off, psychological obsolescence takes over. We are made to feel ashamed to wear clothes or drive cars until they are worn out. The mass media have convinced us that to be out of step with fashion is to be out of step with reality. It is time we awaken to the fact that conformity to a sick society is to be sick.”
― Richard J. Foster, Celebration of Discipline