Aperture Quote by Anais Nin

“It is the mythic experience, the mythic imagination that opens, reveals depth and mystery, which places the human in the context of the nonhuman,…

— Tom Cheetham

“His gaze, blunted by the unnumbered procession of iron bars, uncounted as his softly padded steps. Smooth motion of blood and sinew turning in…

— Rilke Rainer Maria

“When a writer writes, it's as if she holds the sides of her chest apart, exposes her beating heart. And even though everything wants…

— Helen Humphreys

“A long hallway, hung profusely with dark, water-stained sporting prints, served as a lobby, in which centuries of sacrificed kippers had left the smell…

— Alan Bradley

“You have a person in a very tiny cell banging himself from one wall to the other and not being able to find any…

— Dan Miron

“It was as if her own heart had been surgically removed from her body and was being kept at a remote location, still connected…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“[…] the heart moving through a tunnel, in it darkness, darkness, darkness, like a shipwreck we die going into ourselves, as though we were…

— Pablo Neruda

“Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.”

— Terry Tempest Williams

“He stands in the kitchen doorway, a black figure surrounded by the yellow light background, the small details of his face unseen from the…

— Frank Turner Hollon

In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Written in faded blue letters, ornate, almost Gothic, across Gil’s chest, were two lines: It is impossible to go through life without trust: that…

— Joe Hill

“Reading...can make you fell like not one lone cell stranded in the desolation of the world, but one of eight billion cells conjoined by…

— Randall Silvis