Orts #698
There’s no more painful love than the love you feel when you’re in a railroad station and you exchange glances with someone whose train is headed in the other direction.
— “Yasmina Khadra” (Mohammed Moulessehoul), The Swallows of Kabul (2004)
Sometimes the wrong train will get you to the right station.
— The Lunchbox, 2013 movie (India)
Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.
— E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web, chapter 22