Martin Roper

“- It was a joke. Remember irony.- Sister of bitterness?”

“Don't go back to teaching - it sucks the marrow from your sould andyour wisdom fades into the brick brains of those who can not learnwhat they do not know. Teaching is a wall falling into a vermilionsea. What I like most about you is your yellow flaring laugh and itlashing joyfully against the wind of your anguish.”

“It is one of those rare moments when we seem to forget everything,forget this insistence on living in the moment.”

“The fragile and ancient hurt that seeps out of adults when they speakof wronged childhoods.”