Etta Pfleider

“We’re not here to argue with you about the wisdom of our alliance that has kept the Persians at bay for forty years. An argument requires a measure of equality between those in the dispute and Samos is not the equal of Athens.”
― Yvonne Korshak, Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece

“I don’t want my heart to be broken,” they say. Or, “I don’t want to fail.” “I understand,” Susan tells them. “But you have dead people’s goals. Only dead people never get stressed, never get broken hearts, never experience the disappointment that comes with failure.”
― Susan Cain, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

“There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable.”
― Voltaire

“New' is a word for fools in towns who think / Style upon style in dress and thought at last / Must get somewhere.”
― Robert Frost, The Poetry of Robert Frost