Quote for Today: Catherynne M. Valente
“This maze is laid out such that should you step through the correct path, by its end you will have learned the most extraordinary dance, such that any coronation …
“This maze is laid out such that should you step through the correct path, by its end you will have learned the most extraordinary dance, such that any coronation …
Words are substance strange. Speak one and the air ripples into another’s ears. Write one and the eye laps it up. But the sense transmutes, and the spoken word …
Without imagination, things were only as they appeared – and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, …
The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful …
I have come to believe that we steer our individual spheres of being through the spectra of possible worlds via the choices we make, the acts we perform. Most …
Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality and that the other 5% would be delivered in the next 18 months, …
There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or …
Our lives really do seem strange and mysterious when you look back on them. Filled with unbelievably bizarre coincidences and unpredictable, zigzagging developments. While they are unfolding, it’s hard …
The sensation was part of the general strangeness that made him feel like a man waking from a long sleep to find himself in an unknown country among people of …
Let’s be honest. We have questions about monsters. That’s why we put this book together. That’s why you’re reading this book right now. On old maps, cartographers would draw strange …