I want to remember warming your two a.M. Bottle, clipping your locks, watching you be baptized, bathing you in the big porcelain sink… how I often laid you against my chest and felt the cradlesong of your tiny breaths as you fell asleep . . .
Weitere Zitate von Carew Papritz
Zum Autor"To become a man is to carry out your word because you gave your word. And your word is you as a man.' - The Legacy Letters, by Carew Papritz."
"Why read? Because books are precious guides to our humanity—civilization’s backbone—that tenuous ridgeline that allows us to climb above the jungle and see what the horizon has to offer. Thus they represent the yearning to go beyond, to explore. Yet they are also human-sized . . ."
"More than likely you’ll do well enough alone by the engines of your own fate until you either hit a few really nasty bumps in the road or grow old enough to realize that there may be a diamond or two in what you thought was your old man’s bucket."
"How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning."
"As an adult, be child-like as you learn but not child-ish as you live."
"Sunrise - a time when all truths are still clean and enviable."