Quote for Today: Neil Gaiman
It occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as …
Quote for Today: Philip K. Dick
Silence. It flashed from the woodwork and the walls; it smote him with an awful, total power, as if generated by a vast mill. It rose from the floor, up …
Quote for Today: Ta-Nehisi Coates
I found that people would tell me things, that the same softness that once made me a target now compelled people to trust me with their stories. This was …
Quote for Today: Jorge Luis Borges
In my childhood I was a fervent worshiper of the tiger: not the jaguar, the spotted “tiger” of the Amazonian tangles and the isles of vegetation that float down the …
Quote for Today: Richelle Goodrich
Writers possess magic. It’s in their words. They compose phrases as powerful as incantations, creating illusions in the minds of readers. These spells make eyes envision things that aren’t real; …
Lovingly Carried: The Enchantment of Božo Vrećo’s Lejlija
Our world seems increasingly fractured by mistrust and hate. Can music, especially that of the human voice, heal those fractures? Sevdalinka or Sevdah music is a genre of folk music that …
Quote for Today: William Shakespeare
Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am …
Quote for Today: Ming-Dao Deng
The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, …
Quote for Today: Akiba Ben Joseph
The paper burns, but the words fly free. ―Akiba Ben Joseph
Quote for Today: Molly Ivins
Margaret Atwood, the Canadian novelist, once asked a group of women at a university why they felt threatened by men. The women said they were afraid of being beaten, raped, …