Eddie Hershelman > Eddie's Quotes

“Never Give Up!”
― Michael Parker

“Perhaps you are right, sister.  Perhaps it is time we all calmed down a little and started to tell each other the truth.”  Šarlatová paused to look at the faces of everyone assembled in the room and added, “But it is going to take a while….a long while.”
― Stephen A. Reger, Storm Surge: Book Two of the Stormsong Trilogy

“I was told you are carrying around a USB. Is there classified information on it?”
― Karl Braungart, Lost Identity

“Asking me to just be myself is like asking a mirror to stop changing every time someone different looks at it.”

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― Frank Lambert, Cult of the Clan

“The Black Prince is entombed at Canterbury Cathedral. His effigy reads: “Such as thou art, sometimes was I, Such as I am, such thou shalt be, I thought little on hour of death, So long as I enjoyed breath, On earth I had great riches, Land, houses, great treasure, Horses money and gold, But now a wretched captive am I, Deep in the ground, lo I lie, My beauty great, is all quite gone, My flesh is wasted to the bone.”
― Michael G. Kramer, Isabella Warrior Queen

“What's so noble about being dead?”
― Dalton Trumbo, Johnny Got His Gun

“Charity is scraps from the table, social justice is a seat at the table, and remember, we want a seat.”
― Tracy Kidder, Rough Sleepers

“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”
― Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems

“Which is nonsense, for whatever you live is Life. That”
― Robert Penn Warren, All The King's Men

“Is solace anywhere more comforting than in the arms of a sister?”
― Alice Walker

“When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof