Defying D

“There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.”
― Elizabeth George, Missing Joseph

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”
― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

“A line is a fuse
that's lit.
The line smolders,
the rhyme explodes—
and by a stanza
a city
is blown to bits.”
― Vladimir Mayakovsky