Racheal

“A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“There are moments in history that seem like a mist, as if what really happens matters less that what should have happened. The mists lift suddenly and there we are, my good parents and their good children, their grateful children who phone for no reason but to talk, say their good-nights with a kiss, and look forward to home on the holidays. I see how, in a family like mine, love doesn't have to be earned and it can't be lost. Just for a moment I see us that way; I see us all. Restored and repaired. Reunited. Refulgent.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

“At last- I had already given up hope- he broke throught the magic wall; at last helped me; at last he said a few words. Those were the only words I heard him speak today.
'You are tiring yourself Joseph,' he said softly, his voice full of that touching friendlness and solicitude you know so well. That was all. 'You are tiring yourself Joseph.”
― Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game

“In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves