Mark Wilkerson

“He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“The secret to getting ahead is getting started.”
― Mark Twain

“I knew that at least a few of the stars I saw were probably gone already, collapsed into nothing. I felt like I was looking at a lie. But I didn't mind. The world makes liars of us all.”
― Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds

“in this short life
that only lasts ah hour
how much-how little-is
within our power.”
― emily dickinson