Arlette's Profile

“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York is in heavy boots.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

“Punctuationally speaking, wonder is a period at the end of a statement we've long taken for granted, suddenly looking up and seeing the sinuous curve of a tall black hat on its head, and realizing it was a question mark all along.”
― David James Duncan, My Story as Told by Water: Confessions, Druidic Rants, Reflections, Bird-Watchings, Fish-Stalkings, Visions, Songs and Prayers Refracting Light, from Living Rivers, in the Age of the Industrial Dark

“The other fifty percent of those seriously misguided individuals who claim to be Neil naysayers are probably being one hundred percent honest when they make the shocking and outrageous claim to "not be fans." They are, nonetheless, also one hundred percent wrong. While casting no aspersions whatsoever about their moral character, they probably either utterly pretentious poseurs or totally vicious bastards.”
― David Wild, He is...I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond

“And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine