The Wishing Bones A thousand grandmothers ago Pyrrha and Deucalion repopulated the world with rocks, bones of mother Earth, a generation of my ancestors strained from the mud of a drowned planet. But I’m more interested in my earliest grandmothers, their gills and wetness, before they crawled from that blue expanse and learned to … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jalina Mhyana
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Quote for Today: Marius Vieth
As a photographer you have a deep love for light, life and yourself. You know that the eyes of love aren’t blind, they are wide open. Only when your eye, heart and soul shine brighter than the sun, you realize how ordinary it is to love the beautiful, and how beautiful it is to love … Continue reading Quote for Today: Marius Vieth
Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
We scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen. ―Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts Image: Blurred Vision … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
Quote for Today: Orhan Pamuk
She looked out the window; in her eyes was the light that you see only in children arriving at a new place, or in young people still open to new influences, still curious about the world because they have not yet been scarred by life. ―Orhan Pamuk, The Museum of Innocence Public Domain Image via … Continue reading Quote for Today: Orhan Pamuk
Quote for Today: Julie Andrews
Early one beautiful summer evening, when everyone else was drinking indoors, Tony and I walked down to the river. We lay on the grass under a tree and chatted. At one point, Tony said, "Look at the pattern of lace the leaves make against the sky." I looked at the canopy above us, and suddenly … Continue reading Quote for Today: Julie Andrews
Quote for Today: Nicola Yoon
And what about the lovers who spend hours staring into each other's eyes? Is it a display of trust? "I will let you in close and trust you not to hurt me while I'm in this vulnerable position." And if trust is one of the foundations of love, perhaps the staring is a way to … Continue reading Quote for Today: Nicola Yoon
Quote for Today: Katherine Dunn
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them. ―Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
Quote for Today: Arundhati Roy
But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window at the sea. At a boat in the river. Or a passerby in the mist in a hat. He was exasperated because he didn't know what that look … Continue reading Quote for Today: Arundhati Roy
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 good style, to say what they were and what they did to me. Undertow eyes? Why not? Undertow. That's the notion that the new expression … Continue reading Quote for Today: Machado de Assis
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, that I know for sure - but I have never encountered them, and I am searching still for the profound and plaintive gazes in whose … Continue reading Quote for Today: Jean Lorrain