Quote for Today: Isaac Marion
Was it just fear? the voices wonder. We were fearful in the best of times; how could we cope with the worst? So we found the tallest walls and poured …
Quote for Today: Yevgeny Zamyatin
“It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand …
Quote for Today: Emil Dorian
I stopped in front of a florist’s window. Behind me, the screeching and throbbing boulevard vanished. Gone, too, were the voices of newspaper vendors selling their daily poisoned flowers. Facing …
Quote for Today: Tennessee Williams
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ―Tennessee Williams, Camino Real
Quote for Today: Irène Némirovsky
But it was blossom time. Against a sky of pure and relentless blue—that deep but lustrous Sèvres blue seen on certain precious pieces of porcelain—floated branches that appeared to be …
Quote for Today: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a …
Quote for Today: Og Mandino
Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no …
Quote for Today: Gaston Leroux
They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be …
Quote for Today: Holly Black
People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, …
Quote for Today: Rumer Godden
It is an anxious, sometimes a dangerous thing to be a doll. Dolls cannot choose; they can only be chosen; they cannot ‘do’; they can only be done by; children …