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“I knew about wild plums twice before I tasted any.”
― Grace Stone Coates

“They might just as well have been throwing pebbles into an empty cave.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders." Even I--unused to your ways though I am--would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them.

Instead I will say, "Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad dreams, your shoes, your nouns. Take me to your fingers; take me to your deaths."

These are worth it. These are what I have come for.”
― Margaret Atwood, Good Bones

“Celia endeavors to be as helpful as she can, which consists mainly of fetching cups of tea and finding new and creative ways to assure people everything will be fine.”
― Erin Morgenstern

“We lead strange lives, chasing our dreams around from place to place.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus

“And cranky old Jacques Derrida notwithstanding, we do love our dichotomies.”
― Thomas King, The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

“I felt my voice had fallen through and through me, and I couldn't summon it back to tell him or myself anything at all.”
― Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

“But he was so young then that later he was only able to remember fragments of what happened next: the lull of the morning fields, the springy cotton flanks of the sheep, the suddenness of the tumble down the deep hole in which he would spend the night, alone, gazing up at the puzzled sheep, and hours later, Mother Vera's thoughtful, dawn-lit face hovering over the mouth of the hole.”
― Téa Obreht, The Tiger's Wife

“Even as Camille's beauty and precocity took form, when pride alone might have nurtured proprietary feelings, she never seemed quite the child Judith was meant to call her own.”
― Tom McNeal, To Be Sung Underwater

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”
― Lloyd Alexander

“The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.”
― William Apess, On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot

“Shield me, kind heaven, what an inundation of impertinence is here coming upon us!”
― John Vanbrugh, Provoked Wife

“How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then her eyes--and the worst kissing lips in the universe.”
― John Vanbrugh, Provoked Wife

“They were like two inviolable spheres touching at a fine point in their curves, touching but failing to penetrate, failing to breathe the other's air.”
― Joshua Ferris, The Unnamed

“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
― Charles Bukowski

“First, it is a commitment to particularism, to giving priority to the specificity of particulars, not to abstractions and generalities that divert our attention away from concrete realities. Idealizations tend to be partial and distorting, obscuring the heterogeneity and complexity of actual experiences and concrete practices, which is why they do not provide an adequate standpoint for the diagnosis of social problems and injustices.”
― José Medina, The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations