“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. – Mrs. Whatsit” ~ Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time
“And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.” ~ C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet
“Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” ~ Orson Scott Card, Enders Game
“There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.” – Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov (1950) (Photo Credit: Douglas Kirkland/Corbis)
“Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.” Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless
Picard: “I’ve just been paid a visit from Q.” Riker: ” Q? Any idea what he’s up to?” Picard: “He wants to do something nice for me.” Riker “I’ll alert the crew.” ~Picard and Riker, “Qpid” Star Trek Season 4 Episode 20 I love the character Q. He is both nefarious and loveable, and his relationship with Picard makes me laugh.