Looking For a Good Book

It’s time for a few more quotes from some of my recent readings.  If you enjoy quotes (and it seems there are a number of us who do), you can check out my previous assortment as well (Quotes #1 and Quotes #2).

“We are language-making creatures in the same way that spiders are webmaking creatures.”
— Robert Hass The Ecopoetry Anthology, introduction

“This is the world.  It’s not the one we were supposed to have, but it’s the one we made.
We did this. We did it with open eyes and willing hands. We broke it, and there is no putting it back together.”
— Jonathan Hickman East of West

“Art is also a language.”
— Robert Atkins ArtSpeak

“A pronoun is a ghost
of who you really are…”
— Kristin Elizabeth Clark Freakboy

“…how can someone who
doesn’t speak up
be the voice of reason?”
— Kristin Elizabeth Clark Freakboy

“One is not born knowing how to lead, one learns.”
— Jennifer Donnelly Deep Blue 

“…Never waste magic on the mundane.”
— Jennifer Donnelly Deep Blue

“One is not just alive or dead.  It is a matter of degrees.”
— Freya Robertson Heartwood

“The woman with no use for pulp fiction had a pulp fiction sort of body, Amazing Stories hips, Astounding thighs, Fantastic breasts.”
— James Morrow The Madonna and the Starship

“Man did not live by bread alone, and neither did woman, but at that moment it seemed as if we might sustain ourselves forever on eros.”
— James Morrow The Madonna and the Starship