January 2013
“After four sunsets and sunrises, the spirit, too, was gone. It was simply a body. Diggers would come and sprinkle a layer of soil over the flesh, but even so it would be eaten by the clawing, hungry creatures that came at night. Then the bones would scatter, rot, and crumble to become part of the earth.”
—Gathering Blue (The Giver Trilogy): Lois Lowry
“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
—Life of Pi: Yann Martel
“To quote the Almanac: “People who live in glass houses should shut the fuck up.”
—Ready Player One