“A memory is only a Prince Charming who stays just long enough to awaken the Sleeping Beauties of our wordless stories.”— Michel de Certeau,, amazon.com
“Laboring over a simple word, almost redeemed by what he tried to say.”— Yusef Komunyakaa, ibiblio.org
“You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“We were received into the elements of the eternal pearl as water takes light to itself, with no change in its substance.”— Dante Alighieri, amazon.com
“It is a far, far better thing that I do than I have ever done before; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is a short parenthesis in a long period, and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”— John Donne, amazon.com
“I know how betrayal and disillusionment feel, when someone who could give you the world refuses even a tiny piece of it.”— Mary Kubica, amazon.com
“The truth may be stretched thin, but it never breaks, and it always surfaces above lies, as oil floats on water.”— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, amazon.com
“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”— Yann Martel, amazon.com
“I hadn’t expected that a tiny glimmer of hope for the future could transform someone so utterly.”— Dai Sijie, amazon.com
“You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone.”— Jean Rhys, amazon.com