Pearline Bogdan

“I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out there."
There might as well be, "Arsibalt said, "but most of it gets spent on pornography, sugar water and bombs. There is only so much that can be scraped together for particle accelerators.”
― Neal Stephenson, Anathem

“We can be beacons of light”
― Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer God is the Cure

“He had left off being a perfectionist then, when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean, not membership in Onwentsia, or the Lake Forest Golf and Country Club, or the Lawyers' Club, not power, or knowledge, or goodness - not anything - cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.”
― Judith Guest, Ordinary People

“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Mystery of Marie Rogêt