Latest Quotes

“Most people in cities are now several generations away from life on the farm, and some even think of rural areas as our dumping ground. It’s where we send our prisoners, our garbage and our toxic waste.”

— Daniel Lichter, The Unexpected Agency Helping America’s Drug Problem

“The last few years I’ve always felt like the people who take these things totally casually have some greater strength than I do. But I am grateful that I’m totally shaken. I’m grateful that I can still be shocked by this — by any — level of violence.”

— Eva Fisher, What It Feels Like To Be In Munich Right Now — The Lighthouse

“For those in the midst of the Plague it must have felt like the end of the world... To us now it seems obvious that we survived the Plague, but to people at the time it must have seemed incredible that their society continued afterwards”

— Tobias Stone, History tells us what will happen next with Brexit & Trump

“How ironic, I thought too. We’d been through so much medical shit together. We’d been prepared to lose each other through procedures or diagnoses. Last night reminded me that we could lose each other by going on vacation.”

— Eva Fisher, What It Feels Like To Be In Munich Right Now — The Lighthouse

“Being in a committed, healthy relationship goes beyond being romantic. It coincides with helping your SO when they need it most and knowing how to push through the hard times together.”

— Raven Ishak, 11 Signs Your Relationship Is Doing Better Than You Think It Is

“I promise to make your heart beat faster and to fill your stomach with butterflies even after thirty years of being together.”

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, This Is How I Promise To Take Care Of Your Heart

“I have never thought of true love as someone being there at your side every moment of every day, but being free, and encouraged, to pursue your own passions and to share in the spoils of your triumphs together.”

— Beau Taplin, I Don’t Need To Be Your Whole World, But I Want To Be Part Of It

“Writing is hard work. It's smoothing and polishing and tucking in the elbows of each paragraph. It's voice and technique and practice. It's mastering style with form, power with control. And I think I know what it's all for. It's for getting closer to the page. It's for getting closer to yourself, t…”

— Alex Magnin, Everyone Should Write

“Date a girl who doesn't read, because the girl who reads knows the importance of plot. She can trace out the demarcations of a prologue and the sharp edges of a climax. She feels them in her skin. The girl who reads will be patient with an intermission and expedite a denouement. But of all things, t…”

— Charles Warnke, You Should Date An Illiterate Girl

“A girl who reads understands syntax. Literature has taught her that moments of tenderness come in sporadic but knowable intervals. A girl who reads knows that life is not planar; she knows, and rightly demands, that the ebb comes along with the flow of disappointment.”

— Charles Warnke, You Should Date An Illiterate Girl

“He'll stare at the house for a long time, not remembering / the aftertaste of ice-cube tray popsicles, / searching for something he can call his. He'll have to drive away, like he always does-- / because your'e gone, and you've been gone, / and anyway, he was wrong about the color of your eyes.”

— Kara Searcy, You're Reading Poems About Women Who Drown

“This Spanish wine has all the dryness of rattlesnake skin abandoned between the forked thoughts of an Arizona moon. Moon tinged with bruises on one side. If this wine truly is a snake then it has silk scales and the warmth of a deep kiss pressed by a complete stranger against the lips of last night'…”

— Alan Britt, Spanish Wine In Early Summer

“we are inverted rainbows that don't hang in the sky.”

— Emily Wheeler, 'The Boy Playing Music on the Street Who I Don't Know,' in Opus Magazine .09

“I wonder if the trees, lined up one by one, get annoyed with each other after a while.”

— Elise Filka, 'Mother root,' in Opus Magazine .09

“I suppose it was just old, I suppose it was just its time, or maybe it was only some stray image, twisted minute of a dream, broken bit of a story I've taken for memory. I could do it, I think. It's like religion that way. You simply begin to believe.”

— Joe Wilkins, 'Now That It Has Been Many Years, and I Have Moved Far from Mississippi,' in Notes From The Journey Westward

“they loved us, those stars. They must have, anyway, for they did what no one did, what even we could not: they saw us and spared us.”

— Joe Wilkins, Notes From The Journey Westward

“I know about the stars. That night they made shadows of us, made us bigger, wilder than we were--”

— Joe Wilkins, Notes From The Journey Westward

“they leaned into everything: cigarettes and stories, nips of whiskey, / laughter like blackbirds rising across a white sky.”

— Joe Wilkins, Notes From The Journey Westward

“And we danced / with tall grass, wind, and sunrise, drove the next day a two-lane that slid / like a lover across the plain.”

— Joe Wilkins, Notes From The Journey Westward

“How her own body warmed as the world warmed, / how like riding home in the whole-sky spill of spring rain / there was no clean line between her and it.”

— Joe Wilkins, Notes From The Journey Westward