“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
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“I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids.”
Source: Christine
“When we say that “the world has ended,” remember—it is usually a lie. The planet is just fine.”
Prologue “me, when I was I” (p. 2)
The Stone Sky (2017)
“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
Source: Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson, with Annotations - 1841-1844
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. ”
“Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.”
“The only sin in the world is ignorance.”
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in”
“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”
“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”
“Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.”
“But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
“I believe in the forest, and in the meadow, and in the night in which the corn grows.”
“He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.”
“The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.”
Source: Walden and Other Writings
“It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
