Truth

All of this time I have been trying to explain to you this: a war with fascism is a war over reality. Fascism itself requires the obliteration of the truth. The erasure of the impacts of a plague that is devastating the country is the kind of thing only an authoritarian could do.
—Kelly Hayes

Crack

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
—Vladimir Nabokov [01.05.06]

Service

In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love, because, as the prophet says, service is love made visible. If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself. So no more winning. Instead, try to love others and serve others, and hopefully find those who love and serve you in return.
—Stephen Colbert (2011)

What I Want

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
—Marina Keegan [06.04.12]

Offends

Don't allow people to get you to believe that you've offended God when in reality you've only offended them. What offends you reveals you.
—Earon M. James Sr.

Afraid

I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
—Billy Connolly

Twilight

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become victims of the darkness.
—Justice William O. Douglas [04.27.06]

Memory

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.
—Vladimir Nabokov [09.14.06]

Shine

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
—Thomas Carlyle (1843)