Time Has Its Revenges

“Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. 

Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, 

accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, 

not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? 

Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – 

a being capable of understanding.”

~ Graham Greene, The Quiet American

Then You Must Tell 'Em

 “Then you must tell 'em 

dat love ain't somethin' lak uh grindstone 

dat's de same thing everywhere

 and do de same thing tuh everything it touch. 

Love is lak de sea.

 It's uh movin' thing, but still and all,

 it takes its shape from de shore it meets, 

and it's different with every shore.”

~ Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Where The Lips Are Silent

“Where the lips are silent 

the heart has a thousand tongues.”

~ Rumi, The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing

Truth Is

“Truth is, 

something that I thought was perfect 

was taken away from me, 

and I never wanted perfect again.

 I wanted middle-of-the-road, 

stuff I didn’t care about 

so that I couldn’t lose anything 

I really loved ever again.”

~ Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life