“But as much as we would rather enjoy the comfort of belief, to live in the adventure of the question is richer, better and, frankly, a great deal more fun.”
― Whitley Strieber, The Afterlife Revolution: We DO Live On and We CAN stay connected!
"If dark nights must come, let them come.
Open your doors.
Let them come, my dear, and ask them what they want.
Maybe all they want is your presence. Nothing else.
Maybe all they want to do is to hold you so close and polish you secretly, without telling anyone–
Maybe that is all they want.
Know that deep inside they hold ten thousand fragrant mornings. They hold the source of laughter.
They hold life."
“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name is Red
“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”
― Holly Lisle, The Silver Door
"All the matter in the universe would fit into about 1 billion cubic light years, or a cube that's approximately 1,000 light years on each side. That means that only about 0.0000000000000000000042 percent of the universe contains any matter. The universe is a pretty empty place!"---How Stuff Works..
"Everything is made of time, and we go out in waves, accumulating around ourselves in halos of dust, the borders bleeding into each other; the tearing and merging of clouds.”
― Russell Edson, The Tunnel: Selected Poems
"God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own." ~ Whitley Strieber