One Day

"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of that long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day."

- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

One Day

"We spent as much money as we could and got as little for it as people could make up their minds to give us. We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us that we were constantly enjoying ourselves, and a skeleton of truth that we never did. To the best of my belief, our case was in the last aspect a rather common one."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.

One Day

"Sometimes you are aware when great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people." 


- James Salter, Burning the days.