Foresight from Forsythe

Of course a book can change you. It can even change your life. It's like falling in love. And you never know when such an encounter might happen. You should beware of books, they're sleeping genies

They took everything and ground it down to dust as fine as gunpowder, they fired their guns into the air in victory and the strays flew out into the nothingness of histories written wrong and meant to be forgotten. Stray bullets and consequences are landing on our unsuspecting bodies even now.

The trouble with entering the upper echelon is you have to work harder to stay there.

Not everyone could be extraordinary, not everyone could be extremely cool; because whom would this leave to be ordinary?

My mother was not one to say to her children “I love you”. It was an assumed truth, given freely at the gate of the womb.

Sometimes your life changes so slowly and imperceptibly that you don't notice it at all until one day you wake up and think, 'How did I get here?' But other times, life changes in an instant with a lightning stroke of good or bad luck with glorious or tragic consequences.