Abbey

“Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.”
― Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings

“You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it on to her, to communicate again with her through the channel dug by others' words, which, as they are uttered by an alien voice, by the voice of that silent nobody made of ink and typographical spacing, can become yours and hers, a language, a code between the two of you, a means to exchange signals and recognize each other.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“For I do not seek to understand in order that I may believe, but I believe in order to understand. For this also I believe-that unless I believe I shall not understand.”
― St. Anselm

“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”
― Annie Dillard