“And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night— every nig…”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“The seeds of life— fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.”— Virgil, amazon.com
“Perhaps you consider yourself an oracle,Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other.Thirty years now I have laboredTo dredge the silt from your throat.I am none the wiser.”— Sylvia Plath, poetryfoundation.org
“I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.”— Theodore Roethke, poetryfoundation.org
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.”— J.K Rowling, amazon.com
“The most notable fact our culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits.”— Adrienne Rich, amazon.com
“Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.”— Gabriel Garcia Marquez, amazon.com
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com