Joey

“Time should move,” Noni had told her. “Don’t go in for a life where time doesn’t pass, the way I did. That is the single best bit of advice I can give you.”
― Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss

“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

“It was on the moral side, and in my own person, that I learned to recognise the thorough and primitive duality of man; I saw that, of the two natures that contended in the field of my consciousness, even if I could rightly be said to be either, it was only because I was radically both;”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“…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