A Child's Prayer

O my dear, forgive me for my sins.
I am very, very, very, very sorry
for putting more thorns and nails
in your skin, dear Jesus.


--written by Mary Jordan, age 10

April

"The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
Yet the back yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree.
I could not be so sure of Spring
Save that it sings in me."

--Sara Teasdale

April

"The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
When the sun is out and the wind is still,
you're one month on in the middle of May.
But if you so much as dare to speak,
a cloud comes over the sunlit arch,
And wind comes off a frozen peak,
And you're two months back in the middle of March."

--Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time, 1926

Betrayal

Why does every breach of trust
Hurt more than other kinds of pain?
Each betrayal wounds as deeply as the one
Which came before, opening old wounds again
While inflicting the new: so that even scars,
Once healed, regain their feeling and begin
To ache anew as they are torn asunder,
Ruptured by the cold steel blade of deceit.

Lost

Lampy: Are you sure this is the right way?

Radio: I'm as sure as I am honest.

Lampy: In that case, we're definitely lost.

--from The Brave Little Toaster

Good morning, good morning, gooooood morning!

Radio: Things could be worse, you know.

Lampy: How?

Radio: How what?

Lampy: How could they be worse?

Radio: They couldn't; I lied.

--from The Brave Little Toaster

Useful words of wisdom from Inigo...

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

"You told me to go back to the beginning. So I have. This is where I am, and this is where I'll stay. I will not be moved."

"Let me explain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up..."

--from the completely quotable movie The Princess Bride