This Week…

“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.”

–Adrienne Rich

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”

–Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

–Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.”

–Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“There is always something left to love.”

–Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”

–Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“Time is the longest distance between two places.”

–Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

“He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart.”

–Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“It was a pleasure to burn.”

–Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

–Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice