Quote for Today: Suzanne Berne
We are known, appreciated, even cherished by our favorite writers; every word of our favorite books seems to have been written for us. Within their sentences and paragraphs, those writers …
Quote for Today: Mary Ruefle
It is not what a poem says with its mouth, it’s what a poem does with its eyes. ―Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures Public Domain Image via …
Quote for Today: Bret Easton Ellis
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating. She shrugs and nods after …
Quote for Today: Philip K. Dick
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. And that led me to wonder, …
Quote for Today: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never …
Quote for Today: Daniel Barenboim
I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It’s also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that …
Quote for Today: Bangambiki Habyarimana
People don’t only speak with their mouths. They speak with their whole being. Sometimes they mean what they don’t say and say what they don’t mean; so listen with your …
Quote for Today: Jennifer Donnelly
I have done this—made the sad prince laugh. Made his grieving parents smile. None but me. Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts …
Quote for Today: Jonathan Safran Foer
That is what death is like. It doesn’t matter what uniforms the soldiers are wearing. It doesn’t matter how good the weapons are. I thought if everyone could see what …
Quote for Today: Jacqueline Carey
Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear. ―Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel’s Chosen