Julia

“What I felt at this moment was black dispair - but no, this was wrong because the color black has vitality , the night is black and has stars and a moon, and mysterious and important events can happen in the darkness. Despair, I decided, was grey: endless, bottomless, without night or day, time, sun or stars.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Caravan

“from Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat:
"Set not thy heart on any good or gain, Life means but pleasure, or means but pain; when Time lets slip a little perfect hour, O take it - for it will not come again.”
― Dorothy Gilman, Caravan

“So they live in darkness but they're safe, I said, and wondered if to be this safe was to always live in darkness...”
― Dorothy Gilman, Caravan

“Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths... In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond refusing to flip into deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.”
― dan brown