Quotes of the Week

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Quote by Daniel Abraham

“in a world

full of

temporary things

you are

a perpetual

feeling.”

― Sanober Khan

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

―Ursula K. Le Guin

"I mean, the world is so magnificent. I feel like we’re surrounded by gates and portals that are portals into—I don’t know—into more life." ~Marie Howe (discovered on

Jeannine Ouellette

Substack)

The time has come,' the Walrus said,

      To talk of many things:

Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —

      Of cabbages — and kings —

And why the sea is boiling hot —

      And whether pigs have wings.' Lewis Carroll, The Walrus and the Carpenter

“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.”

―Beatrix Potter

“Neuroscientists have recorded the inner sensations of reading as a ‘felt motionless movement through space.’ Once you’ve finished reading, that motionless moment leaves in your mind a numinous shape of the path you travelled. A river, a roller coaster, wave. “Jane Alison, Meander, Spiral, Explode, Design and Pattern in Narrative

“Those who have survived the unthinkable are also those who know how to create a better world – because it's ended for us before." — Kai Cheng Thom

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I am wishing you a wonderful weekend, full of peace, love, joy and care for yourself and for one another.

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