Quote for Today: Machado de Assis
Lovers’ language, give me an exact and poetic comparison to say what those eyes of Capitu were like. No image comes to mind that doesn’t offend against the rules of …
Quote for Today: Jean Lorrain
The madness of the eyes is the lure of the abyss. Sirens lurk in the dark depths of the pupils as they lurk at the bottom of the sea, …
Quote for Today: Lionel Shriver
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it. ―Lionel Shriver, Checker and …
Quote for Today: Fernando Pessoa
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd–The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the …
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a …
Quote for Today: Sai Marie Johnson
We like it wet and we like it green, and we are the ones that they call obscene. ―Sai Marie Johnson Public Domain Image via Pexels
Quote for Today: William S. Wilson
We have, after all, an increase in the energy available for further evolution; we can use the energy of our position relative to the probabilities in the future to …
Quote for Today: Ryan Lilly
I had a dream about you. I was a cat. You were a red dot. And even those times I caught you, we couldn’t touch. But still I chased you …
Quote for Today: Lawrence Durrell
Soon it will be evening and the clear night sky will be dusted thickly with Summer stars. I shall be here, as always, smoking by the water. I have decided …
Quote for Today: Sappho
Then you my goddess with your immortal lips smiling Would ask what now afflicts me, why again I am calling and what now I with my restive heart Desired: Whom …