More or Less Sane

"It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane."

~ W. G. Sebald

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Sunday, 18 May 2014

Shadowy Memory

"For some reason the neatly ordered and abandoned books make me feel sad. Tired. I wish Cassia were with me. She'e turn each page and read every word. I can picture her in the dim light of the cave with her bright eyes and her smile and I close my eyes. That shadowy memory might be as close as I come to seeing her again. We have the map, but the distance we still have to cross looks almost insurmountable."

~ Ally Condie, Crossed

Source: Goodreads > Crossed > Quotes from Crossed

The Right Road and My Own Path

"All my days I have longed equally to travel the right road and to take my own errant path."

~ Sigrid Undset

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Tuesday, 20 May 2014

A Passion, Not a Purpose

"With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not--they cannot be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind."

~ Edgar Allen Poe

Source: Quotery.com > Topics > Dreams > Edgar Allen Poe

No Uncharitable Prejudice

"I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one."

~ Herman Melville

Source: Goodreads QOTD for Tuesday, 1 April 2014

The People I Couldn't Save

"My regrets are about the people I couldn't save--Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them."

~ Chris Kyle, American Sniper

Source: Goodreads > American Sniper > Quotes from American Sniper

Seek First

"But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you."

~ Matthew

Source: The King James Bible > Matthew 6:33