Numbers Kimbrell

“She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time, though she hadn't understood why... Now she held inside her a cacophony of times and lately it drowned out the world.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“You have to protect yourself from sadness. Sadness is very close to hate. Let me tell you this. This is the thing I learned. If you take in someone else’s poison – thinking you can cure them by sharing it – you will instead store it within you.”
― Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

“People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite”
― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Good that you ask -- you should always ask, always have doubts.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian