“Still, we do what we can. We keep off strangers and the foolhardy, and we train and we teach, we walk and we weed.” – J.R.R. Tolkien Preamble As an avid reader and writer, it is with great shame that I admit I waited until my thirties to get around to reading the works of …
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Quote of the Week 2/16/25
“…perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.” – Kate Chopin Preamble I have been all of the place with my current reads. From modern COVID fiction to classics, I just can’t seem to make up my mind with what …
Quote of the Week 7/13/24
“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw,’ that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn’t. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs.” – Donna Tart Preamble I have …
Quote of the Week 6/22/24
“To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.” – Sarah J. Maas Preamble I think it’s always good to remember that not every quote needs a deep dive. There are some that require a true scholarly effort to decode and while those are fun (by my standards at least), sometimes you just …
Quote of the Week 5/5/24
“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.” – Zora …
Quote of the Week 2/28/24
“Muses are peculiar creatures–half guardian angel, half walking disaster. They show artists the hidden paths that lead ever deeper into their souls. But every now and then they just abandon them down in the gorges and caverns…” – Nina George For those that have been reading the blog for awhile, you know all too well …
Quote of the Week 10/19/23
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald My love for F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby sprang up on my second read of the book. Like many Americans, I was introduced to this book in high school. My teacher wasn’t the most energetic …
Quote of the Week 9/24/23
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known to laugh, history would have been different. – Oscar Wilde Like many people, my first exposure to Oscar Wilde’s writing was his more famous quote “we are all in the gutter, but some of us are staring at the …
Quote of the Week 6/24
“Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.” – Ocean Vuong I always enjoy perusing my bookshelves, staring at the books like fond memories. Some invoke strong reactions like my Nina George books, others it’s more of an emotion. Seeing Ocean Vuong’s On Earth we were Briefly Gorgeous brought about …
Quote of the Week 6/11
“You make a life out of what you have, not what you’re missing.” – Kate Morton I love when things come together, just like this quote and my post from earlier this week. I have been more mindful recently of appreciating the things around me as opposed to the things that aren’t. Kate Morton expresses …
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