Nanci Sampogna

“Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.”
― Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”
― Homer, The Odyssey

“What marriage doesn't involve uncountable accretions, a language of gestures, a sense of recognition sharp as a toothache? Unhappy, sure. What couple isn't unhappy, at least part of the time? But how can the divorce rate be, as they say, skyrocketing? How miserable would you have to get to be able to bear the actual separation, to go off and live your life so utterly unrecognized?”
― Michael Cunningham, By Nightfall

“It was called a tribute before a battle and a ransom afterwards.”
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King