“Silence is a statement, Diago. Inaction picks a side. And when those lead to personal benefit, they are complicity.” – James Islington Preamble It is late into the night for me as I write this but, then again, I have always enjoyed writing at night. Maybe its most of the world being asleep, the quite, …
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Quote of the Week 7/27
“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 …
Quote of the Week 4/26
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald Preamble The Great Gatsby is one of my all time favorite novels even though I didn’t like it on my first read. I think most of that stemmed from my teacher not walking me through the novel …
Quote of the Week 4/6/25
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafon Preamble …
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 9/10/23
“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.” – C.S. Lewis I am behind tonight for the quote of the week so I will be keeping this one simple. It has been a long while since I have read anything by C.S. Lewis and that is a damn shame! I love how his advice …
Quote of the Week 9/2/2022
“A bookshop is not magic, but it can slowly heal your heart.” – Stephanie Butland Books exist as tiny portals, taking us away from reality into wonderful worlds where anything is possible. While we escape into this micro-worlds, we allow our brain to take a break for awhile. We focus on the words before us, …
Quote of the Week 7/27/2022
“I was living two parts of my life at once.” Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour Today I am starting a new tradition: a weekly quote. These will come from either a book I’m currently reading or a previous book I’ve read. Each week I’ll post a little about what the quote means to me, but …
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