Julé Cunningham"Then she opens the book like she’s raising the lid of a treasure chest. Each illuminated psalm is vibrant as a sunrise. She pictures the monk who copied the verse and decorated the margins, but instead of ink, she imagines him dipping his quill in the colors of bluebirds and holly berries and bright spring moss." ~~ from 'Canticle' by Janet Rich Edwards
Once again I must repeat it—our world is populated by the sleeping, who have died and are dreaming that they are alive. That is why there are more and more people in the world, for it is populated by the sleeping dead who keep growing in number, while the real people living for the first time are few. In all this confusion none of us knows or can possibly know if he is someone who is only dreaming life or really living it. -- from 'House of Day, House of Night' by Olga Tokarczuk, trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones
N.P. ThompsonAn excerpt from Stone of Serpents, book 3 of my Arcanium series, that has been on my mind of late because reason (i.e. because I read the news).
This bit takes place in the middle of a huge battle between the Siershasai'dan fighters and the legions of the dark sorcerer who has terrorized Arcania for 25 years. These are the thoughts of my MC, who gets caught up in the middle of it with his friends.
David Brent 📚"He looked at no one. His face was a mask.
They walked on."
- The Long Walk by Stephen King (writing as Richard Bachman)
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A Persian inscription on a sixteenth-century platter reads: “That this platter always be full, always surrounded by friends, that they are lacking for nothing and that they enjoy everything well.” -- from 'Adventures in the Louvre' by Elaine Sciolino
“It might be a painting where you study the artist’s pencil lines and paint, and the characters and their expressions. Paintings are like a book.” Consciously or not, he echoed one of the most famous sayings about the Louvre, by Cézanne, who once referred to the museum as “the book from which we learn to read.” -- from 'Adventures in the Louvre' by Elaine Sciolino
Did you ever notice how books track you down and hunt you out? They follow you like the hound in Francis Thompson's poem. They know their quarry!... Words can't describe the cunning of some books. You'll think you've shaken them off your trail, and then one day some innocent-looking customer will pop in and begin to talk, and you'll know he's an unconscious agent of book-destiny.
~~ from 'The Haunted Bookshop' by Christopher Morley
tootbrute"Generally, there are remarkably few born who have a new thought, who are capable, if only slightly, of saying anything new —strangely few, in fact."
Crime & Punishment #bookquote
Average Punk Rock Loser"All children, except one, grow up. Recent events had proven to me, again, that I wasn’t that one, not that I’d ever considered I might be. The other issue is that 'growing up' isn’t a destination the same way as 'grandmother’s house' is. It’s not a condition you arrive at, like 'growing bored' or 'becoming hungry,' but rather a process that ends—as the Bard might say—gravely."
Ishmael Horatio Wang - main character of the series Trader's Tales from The Golden Age of the Solar Clipper from book 3, Full Share by Nathan Lowell
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Ishmael Horatio Wang - main character of the series Trader's Tales from The Golden Age of the Solar Clipper from book 3, Full Share by Nathan Lowell
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"You see and remember; this text is a memorial, a wailing wall, for the dead and the mourners have no other place to meet except by the wall of words—the wall that unites the living and the dead." ~~ from 'Oblivion' by Sergei Lebedev, trans. Antonina W. Bouis