Battling Waves Quotes

#1. Maturity is a form of regression.

Jason Parent

#2. Two types of prophecies exist. Those that will happen no matter what, and those that can be prevented. We can't know which is which.

Emlyn Chand

#3. While we are postponing, life speeds by

Seneca.

#4. I wanted dad's life to be seen in that perspective, not the closeup, not the man children feared and who later drank himself to death, but the broad view, a human who was born on earth, pure and innocent, as all are at birth, and who lived a life as all humans do and died his death.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#5. If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

Mark Twain

#6. They were self-effacing people who constantly asked questions and had the ability to confront the most brutal answers - that is, to look failures in the face, even their own, while maintaining faith that they would succeed in the end.

Carol S. Dweck

#7. To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

Saint Ignatius

#8. She sees tall, sensible Eleanor sitting out on a terrace at twilight, with bats circling above her head. She sees the Pargiter family rising and falling through the decades like swimmers battling the waves.'
Summer Lies Bleeding

Nuala Casey