Time passes by, I do not care. What I loved, moved far away from melike a fleeting, fast fading starleaving dim shadows on my life’s horizon. — Hermann Hesse, from “Without Love,” The Season of the Soul: The Poetic Guidance and Spiritual Wisdom of Hermann Hesse (North Atlantic Books, 2011)
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with. ― Alice Hoffman, Practical Magic ( G.P. Putnam’s Sons; Reprint edition, October 3, 2023) Orginally published July 1, 1995.
I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible. — John Steinbeck, East of Eden (Viking Press, 1952)
I have a million things to talk to you about. All I want in this world is you. I want to see you and talk. I want the two of us to begin everything from the beginning. — Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood ( Vintage Classics, August 4, 2022) Originally published September 4, 1987.
It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace. — Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (Doubleday; First Edition, August 26, 2003)
I took the print of life not outwardly but inwardly upon the raw, the whole, the unprotected fibre. I am clouded and bruised with the print of minds and faces and things so subtle that they have smell, colour, texture, substance but no name. — Virginia Woolf, The Waves . (Harvest Books 1978) Originally published… Continue reading Virginia Woolf
She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds. Meanwhile the birds of desire were asleep in the vast interlaced intricacy of her body. —D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Tipografia Giuntina 1928)
If I never meet youIn this lifeLet me feel the lackA glance from your eyesThen my lifeWill be yours ― James Jones, The Thin Red Line (Yilin Press; First Edition, July 1, 2015) Originally published 1962.
When sorrow comes, they come not single spies, but in battalions. I’ve allies in heaven, Jack, I’ve comrades in hell…say hello for me… ― James O’Barr, The Crow (Gallery 13; Reissue edition, October 10, 2017) Originally publishedJanuary 1, 1989.
In one of those stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night. And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known… Continue reading Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Vale of Soul-Making 