“I want either less corruption or more opportunity to participate in it.”

“What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just as ink can stain a white sheet. You can wash it, and wash it, and still never forget what has transpired, a word which here means “happened and made everybody sad.” ~Lemony Snicket

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ~Anaïs Nin

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…” ~Marcus Aurelius

“Everyone has the right to believe and accept what he or she wants, but reality doesn’t discriminate. Reality is not different for different people. Not once has reality excused anyone for good intentions ignorance or stubbornness. Reality shows no mercy, accepts no excuses, and issues no pardons.” ~Gary Ryan Blair

“Winter is on my mind but eternal spring is in my heart” ~Victor Hugo

“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” ~Sarah Dessen

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ~Cesare Pavese

“There’s something to remember and something to forget, as long as we remember there’s something to regret.” ~The Cardigans, Great Divide