For a flicker of a moment I imagined a world completely different from the one I'd always known, a world in which I was treated with fairness, even kindness-- a world in which fathers didn't sell their daughters. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If you are seeking, seek us with joyFor we live in the kingdom of joy.Do not give your heart to anything elseBut to the love of those who are clear joy,Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair.For there are hopes: they are real, they exist –Do not go in the direction of darkness –I tell you: suns exist. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer? Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way.p.207 Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost. Nov 24, 2024 - Fabian Biese>