The Fall of Babel (The Books of Babel #4)

by Josiah Bancroft

Never was a line untangled by heaves and tugs. An unwanted knot requires a flexible stratagem to undo. One must give a little here to make some progress there. So it is with most of life’s snarls.

I grow old in the company of youthful ghosts.

Sometimes the fear of change is just an expression of love for the life you had.

It is true that what distinguishes the amateur from the professional is not a single stroke of success but rather the lengthy education of repeated failure.

When you think little of yourself, everyone else’s opinion of you becomes more important than your own. I hope you don’t slouch your way through your life, trying to hide the greatness in you for fear of putting someone else off.