"The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them."
"I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine."
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Source: Genesis. Book by Bernard Beckett, 2006.
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