“What she wants to do if she can get the time to do it, is not so much to live in the past as to open it up and get one good look at it".”

Source: Living Beyond Your Feelings: Controlling Emotions So They Don't Control You

Source: Story of O

Source: Boys "R" Us

Source: The Well of Ascension

Source: The Uncommon Reader

[226. My strength and weaknesses, Sydney Brenner, Web of Stories, https://www.webofstories.com/play/sydney.brenner/226]

2011, Tucson Memorial Address (January 2011)
Context: That's what I believe, in part because that's what a child like Christina Taylor Green believed. Imagine: here was a young girl who was just becoming aware of our democracy; just beginning to understand the obligations of citizenship; just starting to glimpse the fact that someday she too might play a part in shaping her nation's future. She had been elected to her student council; she saw public service as something exciting, something hopeful. She was off to meet her congresswoman, someone she was sure was good and important and might be a role model. She saw all this through the eyes of a child, undimmed by the cynicism or vitriol that we adults all too often just take for granted. I want us to live up to her expectations. I want our democracy to be as good as she imagined it. All of us — we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.

About Sally Hay whom he married in 1983, in “Life: Richard Burton”

Lost Boys (1992)