We re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them

We re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love true love.

–
Robert Fulghum,

True Love

It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have

It is so long before the mind can persuade itself that she whom we saw every day and whose very existence appeared a part of our own can have departed forever that the brightness of a beloved eye can have been extinguished and the sound of a voice so familiar and dear to the ear can be hushed, never more to be heard. These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.

–
Mary Shelley,

Frankenstein

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties,

A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.

–
Henry A. Wallace