Dawn Fabbro

“Anyway...the problem is that it wasn't long before people realized that independence wasn't everything. Power is never innocent - who said that, Shakespeare? - so why do we go on believing that we can be governed by good people? Those who want power badly enough to seize it are those with monstrous egos, overweening ambitions, they are all potential tyrants. If not, they wouldn't seek out the role...”
― Alice Zeniter, The Art of Losing

“Why did we stop running and playing? We loved it so much. Who made the rule that the child’s pleasure in the body must come to an end? I blame the Puritans!”
― Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point

“The body always wants to live. The spirit is less certain, more susceptible to the heart.”
― Alice Elliott Dark, Fellowship Point

“The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster.”
― Alice Zeniter, The Art of Losing