Juliana

“Nationalism always works overtime to create its own reality”
― Michael Zapata, The Lost Book of Adana Moreau

“History crawls along on the peg legs of small individual lives,” said Frex, “and at the same time larger eternal forces converge. You can’t attend to both arenas at once.” “Our child may not have a small life.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I died as mineral and became a plant,
I died as plant and rose to animal,
I died as animal and I was human,
Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?
Yet once more I shall die human,
To soar with angels blessed above.
And when I sacrifice my angel soul
I shall become what no mind ever conceived.
As a human, I will die once more,
Reborn, I will with the angels soar.
And when I let my angel body go,
I shall be more than mortal mind can know.”
― Rumi Jalal ad'Din

“I heard her say once that though many a man was worth a tumble, there wasn't one in a hundred was worth living with”
― M.R. Carey, The Book of Koli