Quotes

Just a few quotes I've stumbled across lately and liked...

"...maybe God wasn't Allah or Jesus Christ or any of the other deities that people are always using as an excuse to go to war over. That maybe all 'God' was was mutation. Mutability. The thing that happens when the DNA we're 'carrying forward' from our ancestors suddenly jumps the track. Gets altered in some unpredictable way and, for better or worse, sets the first domino falling in a different direction."
-from The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great.

"And that's what I think love is...When your hindsight's 20/20 and you still wouldn't change a thing."
-from The Pact by Jodi Picoult