Timothy Ma

“Ah! Mother, Mother! You still think I am a child - why can I not put my head in your lap and weep? Why have I always to be strong and self-controlled? I would like to weep and be comforted too, indeed I am little more than a child; in the wardrobe still hang short, boy's trouser - it is such a little time ago, why is it over?”
― Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front

“Vice is punished, but virtue is not rewarded”
― George Orwell, Inside the Whale and Other Essays

“We came crying hither.
Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air
We wawl and cry.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“You ever gentle gods, take my breath from me.
Let not my worser spirit tempt me again
To die before you please.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear