"We are not the same person this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person" -W. Somerset Maugham
"I think we can all recognize that the “it’s a joke excuse” is the most dismissive, self-righteous loophole, created by those who refuse to examine their power, and assume they have not only the right to say whatever they want to people, but the right to control how other people react to what they have said.”