Dear Fox, old friend,
thus we have come to the end of the road
that we were to go together.
My tale is finished -- and so farewell.
But before I go,
I have just one more thing to tell you:
Something has spoken to me in the night,
burning the tapers of the waning year;
Something has spoken in the night,
and told me I shall die, I know not where, saying:
"To lose the earth you know,
for greater knowing;
to lose the life you have,
for greater life;
to leave the friends you loved,
for greater loving;
to find a land more kind than home,
more large than earth;
Whereon the pillars of this earth are founded,
toward which the conscience of the world is tending--
a wind is rising, and the rivers flow."

--by Thomas Wolfe
from 'You Can't Go Home Again'

(Becca read this part of the story to a dying Jesse in bed)

Sometimes the window is closed and all you get is a pretty picture. But sometimes, if you're lucky or if you just want something bad enough, sometimes the window will open just a tiny bit and you have to trust yourself enough to go through it- or you can miss things that are important- you can miss your whole life."

--Corky Thacher from Life Goes On

"Only in their dreams can men truly be free
'twas always thus, and always thus will be."


--J. Keating from Dead Poet's Society

"Success is never final.
Failure is never fatal."


--Winston Churchill

"Only the educated are free."

-Epictecus

"Education makes a people easy to lead, difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

-Lord Brougham

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."

-Eleanor Roosevelt

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."

--T. S. Eliot

"We are each of us angels with one wing, and we must embrace each other in order to fly."

--unknown