Orval Eaglin

“Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passing of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark... I hoard all these letters like treasure.”
― Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death

“If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“This faith...is not like a deed to a house in which one may live with full rights of possession. It is more like a kit of tools with which a man may build him a house. The tools will be worth just what he does with them. When he lays them down, they will have no value until he takes them up again.”
― Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe: The New York Times Bestseller―A Roman Soldier's Quest for Faith After the Crucifixion

“Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.”
― Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet the Spy