Printing this out and sticking it next to my bed was the best decision I’ve made all week.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1958
where is there a place for you to be? no place.
Printing this out and sticking it next to my bed was the best decision I’ve made all week.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1958
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
“Lately her mournful spirituality had provoked in me the most primitive impulses … My heart’s desire was that she sit on my lap in the yellow muscadine sunlight.”
— Walker Percy, from Love in the Ruins (Ivy Books, 1971)
“He felt himself caught up in her look, held there before the judgment seat of her eyes.”
— Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
“You have me. Until every last star in the galaxy dies. You have me.”
— Amie Kaufman