Elisabeth McLaughlin

“There are more things to admire in men then to despise.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“To have been made the creatures we are is a marvel. If the process required millennia rather than seven days, how can it be any less sublime?”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

“But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Whereas during those months of separation time had never gone quickly enough for their liking and they were wanting to speed its flight, now that they were in sight of the town they would have liked to slow it down and hold each moment in suspense, once the breaks went on and the train was entering the station. For the sensation, confused perhaps, but none the less poingant for that, of all those days and weeks and months of life lost to their love made them vaguely feel they were entitled to some compensation; this present hour of joy should run at half the speed of those long hours of waiting.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague