Language Quote by Adrienne Rich

“I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes...are maps...I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail”

— Adrienne Rich

“it. I was venturing into a wilderness many had explored before me, crossing the threshold separating those who had killed from those who had…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“All around, the sea was full of ships. Some were burning, some were sinking, some had been smashed to splinters.”

— George R.R. Martin

“I was hunting a thief, and I found a beautiful wreck.”

— C.L. Stone

“I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard…

— Abdulrazak Gurnah

“Words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.”

— Deb Caletti

“Devastation is in fact the raw material from which the best journeys are forged and the richest roads are paved.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“They left trails. More secrets. Lies. A clear path, like a wounded animal. Some didn’t drip blood, but they’d still be messy when I…

— Alex Gates

“And then we were all lifted and hurled away from there, down back the way we had come, around a bend, into a darkway…

— Harlan Ellison

“I sought the sea. There was a small comfort in it--in how it never ended, how there were other lands beyond it that I…

— Susan Fletcher

“The deepest sorrow, he thought. Where the only way to survive is to excavate everything.”

— Michael Ondaatje

“It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more…

— John D. MacDonald