Dawn Marini

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi

“Someone who violated basic rules of behavior and harmed you was, by Navajo definition, “out of control.” The “dark wind” had entered him and destroyed his judgment. One avoided such persons, and worried about them, and was pleased if they were cured of this temporary insanity and returned again to hozro. But to Chee’s Navajo mind, the idea of punishing them would be as insane as the original act.”
― Tony Hillerman, The Dark Wind

“Secrets have a way of making themselves felt, even before you know there's a secret.”
― Jean Ferris, Once Upon a Marigold

“I do not know how to find out anything new without being offensive.— Charles Fort”
― John A. Keel, THE EIGHTH TOWER: On Ultraterrestrials and the Superspectrum