July 2011
1 post
“It is best to win without fighting.”
– Sun Tzu
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
2 posts
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you...”
– Steven King, Different Seasons
“You all know that I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving...”
– Elizabeth Edwards
November 2010
22 posts
“There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.”
– Edgar Allan Poe
“It can be very difficult and embarrassing for everyone to have a writer in the...”
– Andrew Lam
“These are people who have no trouble taking their clothes off — in a way, their...”
– Anne Hathaway on Love and Other Drugs
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.”
– Anaïs Nin (via iponderis)
“But asked if he’d ever had any sexual relations with other men, the broody...”
– Tom Hardy via the Daily Mail
“She looked terrible, but very wise.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (39)
“…his father simply couldn’t stand the sight of sickness and...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (91)
“That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (83)
“The more I thought about it the better I liked the idea of being seduced by a...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (80)
“I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (77)
“The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way. I wanted to dictate...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (76)
“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via aplacecalledfreedom)
“I had never heard Buddy so upset. He was very proud of his perfect health and...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (73)
“He was always saying how his mother said, “What a man wants is a mate and...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (72)
“You oughtn’t to see this,” Will muttered in my ear....”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (65)
“I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (66)
“I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (55)
“A date?” Buddy looked surprised. “Who is it?”...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (59)
“Apolo started competing and being noticed. After much battling, his dad...”
– via People Magazine
“Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it. What I couldn’t stand...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (35)
September 2010
1 post
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (94)
May 2010
2 posts
“I had also hoped that the white moderate would reject the myth of time. I...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail
“There is not in the world one single poor lynched bastard, one poor tortured...”
– Aimé Césaire, Et les chiens se taisaient
February 2010
1 post
“We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And...”
– Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (313)
“She felt angry and miserable. His badger claws dug into the earth and he walked...”
– Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (195)
January 2010
17 posts
““Why do daemons have to settle?” Lyra said. “I want...”
– Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass (167)
“On a personal level, the loyalty and playfulness of his own pets support Sendak...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Dogs, CJM
“What interests me,” Sendak once said, “is what children do at a...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Ungovernable Emotions, CJM
“By looking closely at the spaces Sendak constructs, you can discover how he...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Theater, CJM
“Sendak likes to blur the lines between tidy categories of good and evil asking...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Angels and Devils, CJM
“To Sendak, childhood can be messy, but there are important truths in the logic...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Kids: Innocence and Experience, CJM
“Sendak has always insisted that a child’s full range of emotions, from...”
– Sendak on Sendak; Kids: Innocence and Experience, CJM
“If you didn’t like it, why didn’t you quit?
To do what?...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (414-416)
“Well, I guess you might not pick Belva out of the crowd walking down the street....”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (408)
“It reminded them all of home, he supposed, but back then they’d only been...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (399-400)
“Which led to a discussion about responsibility. It was like with the dogs, Trudy...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (297)
““What’s wrong?” she said.
He could have told her then about...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (252)
“It wasn’t until she pulled his head up that he realized he had crossed his...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (128-129)
“They worked hard to distract one another whenever they recognized bleakness...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (169-170)
“He woke one morning tantalized by an idea: if he could catch the orchard trees...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (162)
“There followed, for each of them, good days and bad, and often Edgar’s...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (161)
December 2009
7 posts
“Herein we find a remarkable redemption of our tendency to conceal death and...”
– Iris Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts
1 tag
“Good art reveals what we are usually too selfish and too timid to recognize, the...”
– Irish Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts
“However, great art exists and is sometimes properly experienced and even a...”
– Irish Murdoch, The Sovereignty of Good Over Other Concepts