Quote for Today: Patricia McKillip
He was sitting in moonlight and candlelight, scratching the head of some beast that looked to Vevay a cross between a lion and a bear. It had black pelt, a …
Quote for Today: Gail Godwin
There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a …
Quote for Today: Chuck Palahniuk
It’s creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. …
Quote for Today: Aesop’s Fables
An Eagle was soaring through the air when suddenly it heard the whizz of an Arrow, and felt itself wounded to death. Slowly it fluttered down to the earth, …
From My Garden: Twenty Camellias in Haiku
Last spring I planted camellias in our front flowerbeds, not fully appreciating what a blessing I was giving myself. My husband and I worked the soil, adding amendments to create …
Quote for Today: Jeanette Winterson
You don’t fall in love like you fall in a hole. You fall like falling through space. It’s like you jump off your own private planet to visit someone else’s …
Quote for Today: A. A. Milne
How did you fall in, Eeyore?” asked Rabbit, as he dried him with Piglet’s handkerchief. “I didn’t,” said Eeyore. “But how–” “I was BOUNCED,” said Eeyore. “Oo,” said Roo excitedly, …
Quote for Today: Louise Glück
Snowdrops Do you know what I was, how I lived? You know what despair is; then winter should have meaning for you. I did not expect to survive, earth suppressing …
Quote for Today: Lois McMaster Bujold
It’s a bizarre but wonderful feeling, to arrive dead center of a target you didn’t even know you were aiming for. —Lois McMaster Bujold, Cordelia’s Honor Public Domain Image via …
Quote for Today: Lawrence Block
One aspect of serendipity to bear in mind is that you have to be looking for something in order to find something else. —Lawrence Block Public Domain Image via …