Andrew

“I’ll never understand why some people can’t just let others live their lives, you know,” Danial said. “You don’t have to understand. You don’t have to agree. Just leave people alone. When I look at the moon and planets and stars, all that narrow-mindedness and hate seem so petty. The universe is such a big place. One hundred thousand light years just from one end of the Milky Way to the other. One hundred. Thousand. Light years. In the time it’s taken for light to travel from one end of our galaxy to the other, thousands of generations have passed. It really makes you realize how small we are, doesn’t it? How short our time on earth is.”
― J.H. Trumble, Don't Let Me Go

“Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.”
― W.S. Merwin

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex

“When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko