Mitch Albom

Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say. All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair. I give myself a good cry if I need it, but… Lees verder Mitch Albom

Salman Rushdie

Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family. One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting. It seems that the right of… Lees verder Salman Rushdie

Elie Wiesel

The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference. I saw the spiders marching through the air, swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day in latter August when the hay came creaking to the barn.