Stefanie

“She used the expression that the Batswana preferred: to become late. There was human sympathy here; to be dead is to be nothing, to be finished. The expression is far too final, too disruptive of the bonds that bind us to one another, bonds that survive the demise of one person. A late father is still your father, even though he is not there; a dead father sounds as if he has nothing further to do--he is finished.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Double Comfort Safari Club

“You have only recently been introduced to the types of silences that exist in a home with one occupant, and emotionally you stagger about this new reality like a sailor returned to land after decades at sea.”
― Mohsin Hamid, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

“Since when does anybody in this life get what they want? You fight your hardest, you make sure you can look at yourself in the mirror every morning, and you take whatever scraps of happiness come your way. That's my philosophy, anyhow.”
― Craig Schaefer, Harmony Black

“Belief in a future heaven creates a present hell.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment