On Saturday afternoons I used to go for a walk with my mother. From the dusk of the hallway, we stepped at once into the brightness of the day. The passerby, bathed in melting gold, had their eyes half-closed against the glare, as if they were drenched with honey, upper lips were drawn back, exposing … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bruno Schulz
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Quote for Today: Sadegh Hedayat
The sun, like a golden knife, was steadily paring away the edge of the shade beside the walls. The streets were enclosed between old, whitewashed walls. Everywhere were peace and stillness, as though all the elements were obeying the sacred law of calm and silence imposed by the blazing heat. It seemed as though mystery … Continue reading Quote for Today: Sadegh Hedayat
Quote for Today: Kelseyleigh Reber
In that moment, the moon and the sun shared the sky. For all of eternity, the moon and sun have chased each other around the world. Long into the future, they will continue this chase, merging the days into months into years into centuries, until the day the sun cannot take the separation any longer … Continue reading Quote for Today: Kelseyleigh Reber
Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
“Farewell," they cried, "Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. "May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks," answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply. ―J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, Or, There and Back Again … Continue reading Quote for Today: J.R.R. Tolkien
Quote for Today: Charles Dickens
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ―Charles Dickens, Great Expectations My backyard in the March morning sun, just before we began putting in our new garden. It's been keeping me busy; I … Continue reading Quote for Today: Charles Dickens
Quote for Today: Willa Cather
Carl sat musing until the sun leaped above the prairie, and in the grass about him all the small creatures of day began to tune their tiny instruments. Birds and insects without number began to chirp, to twitter, to snap and whistle, to make all manner of fresh shrill noises. The pasture was flooded with … Continue reading Quote for Today: Willa Cather
Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
Over the plains of Ethiopia the sun rose as I had not seen it in seven years. A big, cool, empty sky flushed a little above a rim of dark mountains. The landscape 20,000 feet below gathered itself from the dark and showed a pale gleam of grass, a sheen of water. The red deepened … Continue reading Quote for Today: Doris Lessing
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes increasingly difficult to keep a balanced grip on one's own being. The mind swells out to … Continue reading Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Quote for Today: Elizabeth Gilbert
When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have … Continue reading Quote for Today: Elizabeth Gilbert
Quote for Today: Douglas Adams
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital … Continue reading Quote for Today: Douglas Adams