My favorite quote ever. So far this week.

Here are two quotes about writing. I believe the first one - believed it from age 10 when I wrote my first word in my first journal. I've never been afraid of death because I feel like whoever discovers my journals and words will know something about me. I won't have faded away.

"Because when we're all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us."

From Scribbling the Cat by Alexandra Fuller

"Julian once told me that a story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

From The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My favorite quote ever. So far this week.

"During that time of life that is supposed to be a reproductive daze, with the woman's mind all swamped with maternal juices, we were still compelled to discuss Simone de Beauvoir and Arthur Koestler and The Cocktail Party."

-Alice Munro, Nettles, from her short story collection Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.

My favorite quote ever. So far this week.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. ---Sylvia Plath

My favorite quote ever. So far this week.

-"Oh well, I guess I'll go outside and try to murder some gophers." - My Mom, who loves her garden.

My favorite quote ever. So far this week.

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions." ~ Rilke

My favorite quotes ever so far this week

She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. - Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

Why did it seem so tricky, so difficult, to lead simultaneously a romantic
life and a fully conscious one? - Tom Robbins, Fierce Invalids Home
from Hot Climates

Quote

"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life." Henry David Thoreau

Quote That Makes Me Want to Soul-Spelunk - Alone

My wonderful mom sent me a book of quotes called Thoughts on Being at Peace: Words and Paintings Selected by Helen Exley. There are many good quotes but this one epitomizes me at this time in my life.

We are so busy we hardly have time to look at the people we love, even in
our own household, and to look at ourselves. Society is organized in a way that
even when we have some leisure time, we don't know how to use it to get back in
touch with ourselves. We have millions of ways to lose this precious time - we
turn on the TV or pick up the telephone, or start the car and go
somewhere.
We are not used to being with ourselves, and we act as if we don't like
ourselves and are trying to escape from ourselves.

--Thich Nhat Hanh, From "Suffering is Not Enough"

Quote That Makes Me Want to Soul-Spelunk

Which of us, walking through the twilight or retracing some day in our past, has never felt that we have lost some infinite thing? - Jorge Luis Borges