Bright stars...

[fajrdrako]

There are stars whose radiance is visible on earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark.

- Hannah Szenes, 1921 - 1944

I liked the quote as I read it, but it was even more moving when I looked at the dates of the person who wrote it.

I just finished reading the autobiographic novel Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, and this made me think of it. She was writing about the early 1980s in Iran. And Zlata's Diary, which I read long ago, but it made an impression. Bad times, and so much worse elsewhere, too - Afghanistan, Somalia.

We need all the bright lights we can find.