Parish

“I've always hated change. I've always hated when time marched on and wished that sometimes it would just stand still for a while. But time can never stand still, because if I stay in this moment forever, I miss all of the things that I could have seen and done because I am a finite, flawed creature, blinded by the moment so much that I can't entertain the possibility that the future will be better. But it's always better, whether we see it or not. It's better because it's progression. It's growth. You have to appreciate things when you have them, and then let them go. I love this moment. But now... it's gone. Just like that.”
― Johnny B. Truant

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

“The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all his might:
He did his very best to make
The billows smooth and bright
-- And this was odd, because it was
The middle of the night.

The moon was shining sulkily,
Because she thought the sun
Had got no business to be there
After the day was done
-- "It's very rude of him," she said,
"To come and spoil the fun!"

The sea was wet as wet could be,
The sands were dry as dry.
You could not see a cloud, because
No cloud was in the sky:
No birds were flying overhead
-- There were no birds to fly.

In a Wonderland they lie
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summer die.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland