“Buddha, but you shortened it. The original saying is, ‘To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we… — Ruby Lionsdrake Copy Share Image
When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
“Towards midnight the rain ceased and the clouds drifted away, so that the sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamps… — William Golding Copy Share Image
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“This is the mighty and branching tree called mythology which ramifies round the whole world whose remote branches under separate skies bear… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“As you can see,” Daisy said, “one glass is filled with soap water, one with clear, and one with blue laundry water.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“[Adapted and condensed Valedictorian speech:] I'm going to ask that you seriously consider modeling your life, not in the manner of the… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“I murmur: "It's a seat," a little like an exorcism. But the word stays on my lips: it refuses to go and… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called Le Vallage for the great number… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“The “Sons of the Pioneers” are amongst America’s earliest Country/Western singing groups. One weekend we’d drive south of the border to Tijuana,… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Then the boat turned towards me, and stayed its pace, and floated slowly by within my hand's reach, yet I durst not… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“At all times and in all places, in season and out of season, time is now and England, place is now and… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly… — Fuyumi Ono Copy Share Image
“All of the Indians must have tragic features: tragic noses, eyes, and arms. Their hands and fingers must be tragic when they… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image