Lora Maroney’s Profile

“The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Fresco

“I falter where I firmly trod,
And falling with my weight of cares
Upon the great world's altar-stairs
That slope thro' darkness up to God,

I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope,
And gather dust and chaff, and call
To what I feel is Lord of all,
And faintly trust the larger hope.”
― Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam

“There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Lots of little Bigwigs, Hazel! Think of that, and tremble!”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down