Ocean

"All of the woe of the words 'I am' seemed dissolved there, painlessly, peacefully."

~David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Texts between Odysseus and Circe

~Mallory Ortberg, Texts from Jane Eyre

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.” 

 ~Tom Clancy

"Americans suffer from an ignorance that is not only colossal, but sacred."

~James Baldwin

I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.

 ~Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird