Nancy D BookDragoness

“not the perpetrators claimed a just and noble cause. Throughout history, whole societies that seemed stable have imploded when self-righteous narcissists, enflamed by insane ideologies, so threatened the larger population of the sane that soon everyone feared to stand against the violence, whereupon madness accelerated.”
― Dean Koontz, Quicksilver

“The late 1960s was a time of big domestic breakups: the so-called sexual revolution, post-pill, pre-AIDS.”
― Margaret Atwood, Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

“cram into whatever brief time was left to him. At our first meeting, back in early 2015, I’d thought he was one of the most morbid people I’d ever met. But I was mistaken. The lesson of John Sorensen was that to accept death was to accept life, and to accept life was to live in joy, however dire the circumstances around you.”
― John Leland, Happiness Is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a Year Among the Oldest Old

“People die. I don’t want to be the reason some live and some don’t. It’s best to just . . . be a mammal. Eat as much fresh fruit as you can. Spend time with trees. Hug the people you love. Accept that death is as natural as the rest of life. Dogs understand that. Cats understand that. Only humans have a hard time with it. And when it’s over, at least there’s someone there. At least you aren’t alone.”
― Joe Hill, Ushers