- "It eluded us then, but that's no matter-tomorrow we will run faster, stretch our arms out farther...And one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." -The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- A short pencil is better than a long memory.
- "There's a tough word on your crossword, there's a bedbug nipping a finger. There's a swallow, there's a calm. Here's a hand to lay on your open palm today." -Of Angels and Angles by The Decemberists
- Once upon a time, I wanted to know what love was. Love is there if you want it to be. You just have to see that it's wrapped in beauty and hidden away in between the seconds of your life. If you don't stop for a minute, you might miss it. -Sean Biggerstaff, Cashback
- "Everybody has a story. We need to find and write these stories before they become obituaries." -Barry Wood
- "I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. I like your body. I like what it does, I like its hows." -I Like My Body When It Is With Your by E.E. Cummings
- Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a bird will come.
- "Only a certain amount of words will ever fit on a page." -Barry Wood
- "You talked with your friend in the cold bright January daylight- and as you passed me on the walk to class the sex of your language rattled in my ear...I wondered if your parents liked being Communists and what you think of American summers and what you're doing on the weekend. I could take you for a burger and you could tell me your life story..." -To The Russian Student by Drew Baughman
- "A history of rope would drown your conscience in blood." -"The History of Rope by Leonard Pitts
- "Are those tattoos?" He closed his right hand. I flipped back and pointed at "Why?" He took back his hands and wrote, "It's made things easier. Instead of writing yes and no all the time, I can show my hands." "But why just YES and NO?" "I only have two hands." "What about 'I'll think about it' and 'probably' and 'it's possible'?" He closed his eyes and concentrated for a few seconds, then shrugged his shoulders, just like Dad used to." -Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- "There has got to be something more stable than love." -Grendel by John Gardner
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