41 posts tagged “quote of the day”
"From my youth, I have been unorthodox in my faith. I could never reconcile the Calvinists' stern preachments that we are all of us, even radiant babes, sin-saturated. Nor could I bring myself to believe in a deity whose finger touched every man's slightest doing. To me, the divine is that immanence which is apparent in the great glories of Nature and in the small kindnesses of the human heart."
from March
by Geraldine Brooks
"So she lived in a state of perpetual loss--the runner who gives her all to the race and always comes short. She couldn't give up the fight and couldn't quite win and so she was caught between the pride of battle and the shame of defeat. And in that state, in that place where rest was impossible and wanting led only to more sorrow, she bore me expecting that I, at least, would not fail.
What if you bet your whole life on a single wish, and lost?"
Yaas describes her mother in
Caspian Rain by Gina Nahai
This
is a beautifully written but terribly sad story of class struggle,
familial dysfunction, and crushing loneliness set in Tehran during the
decade preceding the Islamic Revolution.
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
–H.L. Mencken
"Love involves a peculiar, unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding."
-Diane Arbus
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides."
-David Viscott
"Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right."
-Laurens van der Post


