A Woman's Plight

Persian Proverbialisms

“He who wants the rose must respect the thorn.”

But what if the rose is embarassed by its thorns?

What if it doesn’t want to have thorns?

And what if this makes the rose even more bristly in its own srlf defense so that its thorns just keep growing thicker and thicker around it so that it can hide itself from any potential external judgements?

I mean, really…Who’s gonna love a rose for its thorns?”

Featured Artists, Reclamation

An Argument For Living: Look To Windward Excerpts By Iain M. Banks

The point is: what happens in heaven?’

‘Unknowable wonderfulness?’

‘Nonsense. The answer is nothing. Nothing can happen because if something happens, in fact if something can happen, then it doesn’t represent eternity. Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change.’

‘If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual’s circumstances – and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse – then you don’t have life after death; you just have death.

Iain M. Banks, Look to Windward (Culture, #7)