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“Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.”
― Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.”
― Che Guevara