Vichy

“At birth we are red-faced, round, intense, pure. The crimson fire of universal consciousness burns in us. Gradually, however, we are devoured by our parents, gulped by schools, chewed up by peers, swallowed by social institutions, wolfed by bad habits, and gnawed by age; and by that time we have been digested, cow style, in those six stomachs, we emerge a single disgusting shade of brown. The lesson of the beet, then, is this: hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you’re brown, you’ll find that you’re blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means, Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“I tried desperately to put my thoughts into the forms of prayers, but I didn't know how. If God was real, I figured He was powerful enough to know what I wanted without me actually saying the right words.”
― Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss

“I have so much, and yet I'm still not happy.”
― Barbara Freethy, A Secret Wish

“Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?”
― Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction