Stephen Jay Gould

"We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."

Stephen Jay Gould (The Mismeasure of Man)

Kirsten Dewar

"I dread the day, coming round the corner I'll walk into him. I'm just not prepared to handle that. Because although he's gone from my life, he is no way absent. I wish I could move on. I've tried. But he's got his hook in me, and I can't seem to work it loose ... "