❝Why don’t weavers get to see the right side as they work, the one withouth the threads and knots. Why do we only see the wrong side?”
“Because that is how we understand life” Panorea had a trace of a smile, as if she had been waiting her whole life for someone to ask her the question.
“During out lifetimes we do a lot of things and a lot of things heppen to us. Often we don’t know why. But when the Archangel Michael comes to take us from this earth, he turns the fabric of our life over, revealing the complete design, clear for the first time. It is only then that we understand.
— Richard Romanus, Chrysalis
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❝I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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❝All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.
— Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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❝Keep your face to the sun and you will never see the shadows.
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❝The unexamined life is not worth living.
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❝I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.
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❝Why is patience so important?”
“Because it makes us pay attention.
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❝Sweet, crazy conversations full of half sentences, daydreams and misunderstandings more thrilling than understanding could ever be.
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❝Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
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❝Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t going away.
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