Miriam Dash

“Those whom we most love are often the most alien to us.”
― Christopher Paolini, Eldest

“My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.”
― Osip Mandelstam, The Selected Poems

“We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing”
― Thucydides

“I also believe that parents, if they love you, will hold you up safely, above their swirling waters, and sometimes that means you'll never know what they endured, and you may treat them unkindly, in a way you otherwise wouldn't.”
― Mitch Albom, For One More Day