Salve

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark, it's midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year!”
― Ogden Nash, Collected Verse from 1929 On

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding