Joey

“So true it is, that man’s mind alone was the creator of all that was good or great to man, and that Nature herself was only his first minister.”
― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Last Man

“She put her free hand briefly across his round cheek. To touch like this was permitted here, among these stateless people, where the rules were unknown and in any case suspended.”
― Monica Ali, Brick Lane

“…working hard is rarely the means by which enough of us can gain enough access to material resources to become wealthy. One of the ironies of the culture of greed is that the people who profit the most from earnings they have not worked to attain are the most eager to insist that the poor and working classes can only value material resources attained through hard work. Of course, they are merely establishing a belief system that protects their class interests and lessens their accountability to those who are without privilege.”
― bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

“Once you learn the maze or see the labyrinth whole, then, elaborate chaos is transformed into pattern.”
― Penelope Reed Doob, The Idea of the Labyrinth from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages