Language Arts Quotes

“It's never too late to try a new approach to learning anything, and just because one has no expectation doesn't mean one has no hope.”
― Stephanie Kallos, Language Arts

“(T)here were always vacancies in the construct of life: blank spaces occupied by the unseen guest, the absent friend.”
― Stephanie Kallos, Language Arts

“Memory—uncorrected, uncorroborated, and (by its very nature) unreliable—is what allows us to retroactively create the blueprints of our lives, because it is often impossible to make sense of our lives when we’re inside them, when the narratives are still unfolding: This can’t be happening. Why is this happening? Why is this happening now? Only by looking backward are we able answer those questions, only through the assist of memory. And who knows how memory will answer? Who will it blame? Who will it forgive?”
― Stephanie Kallos, Language Arts

“At what point will elegant linguistic languor be permanently usurped by text-speak expediency? When will we humans abandon the ability to generate long, complex, lusciously worded emotional expressions—like Elizabethan sonnets!”
― Stephanie Kallos, Language Arts

“Her eyes are the first indication of her infirmity, or rather that she resides in more than one world. (Dementia)”
― Stephanie Kallos, Language Arts

“There can be a kind of tipping point when it comes to the souls' yearnings, a moment when it it no longer possible to keep waiting for fate or coincidence or design... It might be reunion, with others, with self. It might be some small cherished ritual, forgotten, denied. At such times, when the soul wearies of waiting, she throws an image of the longed-for experience out ahead of her: an avatar, a hologram, a dream. She engineers, if you will, an answer to her prayer. She projects her yearning onto a stage and then -- with a heart full of faith, expectation and courage -- rushes into it.”
― Stephanie Kallos, Language Arts