C S Friedman Inspirational Quotes (4)

Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.

What is a child? he asks her. The diamond gaze does not flinch. Creatures that are sold on the street by their parents, to get the coin to make more children. She paused. Adults sell themselves.

Civilized man longs for the illusion of barbarism. Either his culture fulfills this need by adopting its outer trappings, or he will be seduced by his first contact with a culture that does.

I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).