"Some of those present were sufficiently aware as to understand that they were witnessing the birth of a new era." –Gabriel García Márquez, Big Mama's Funeral (1962) p.17 #Bitcoin
"She smelled of the wind and the sea and of space and I felt in her marvellously living body the possibility of legitimate surrender." –James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room (1956) p.120
"How does one cope with darkness? Not with one's fist. You don't chase darkness out of the room with a broom, you turn on a light." –Anthony de Mello, Awareness (1990) p.147
"You make do with what you have. As you age you learn even to be happy with what you have. That's one of the few good points of growing older." –Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (2007) p.86
"He gave one last long look across the sky, across that magnificent silver land where he had learned so much. 'I'm ready,' he said at last." –Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) p.37