Reader Quotes

“The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils. —George Orwell”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. —Chief Isapo-Muxika ("Crowfoot")”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“Time is the fire in which we burn. —Delmore Schwartz       Point α A child’s life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark. —Chinese Proverb”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“The ultimate irony; In order to save our lives, we were forced in panic to reach an enlightened state of calmness in which we no longer feared for our lives.”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“And in that half-asleep state, moments before waking, when inspiration meets the practicality of day, I knew.”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“Nothing is ever as it seems or as it might be.”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“Every day is filled with impossibility, until you have chosen to see the possible. Once you make the shift to see, life is a less frightening journey.”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“And through his eyes, I saw this. I saw the deepest meditation of a lover for whom all time stops as his beloved simply turns her head to the side or takes a step.”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“Who sees the future? I am conscious of being only an individual struggling weakly against the stream of time. —Ludwig Boltzmann”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader

“Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. —Theodore Roosevelt”
― Erec Stebbins, Reader