Quote of the Day

"A year from now we'll all be gone
All our friends will move away
And they're goin' to better places
But our friends will be gone away"
- The Head and the Heart, "Rivers and Roads"

Quote of the Day

"Your favorite color is that of red wine
Which brings me around to your favorite pastime"
- Camera Obscura, "Pen and Notebook"

Quote of the Day

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Quote of the Day

"Stockholm's cold but I've been told

I was born to endure this kind of weather"

- First Aid Kit, "Emmylou"

Quote of the Day

"She refuses to surrender to that hair of hers..."
- Gayle Forman

Quote of the Day

"Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrows 

can do it and I am, well, 

hopeless."

- Mary Oliver, "I Worried"

Quote of the Day

"He had the strangest expression on his face -- the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND."

- Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore

Quote of the Day

"Neko Atsume: Kitty Collector is a game that appears to be about collecting cats. Only you never really collect the cats...They have other lives, other places to be. What brings you back, again and again, is that these semiwild creatures have decided, temporarily, to share their existence with you. You cannot collect them, merely the memory of them, for existence is fleeting and nothing, save for ourselves, is ever entirely ours."
- Ryan Bradley, The New York Times (via)

Quote of the Day

"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

- Harper Lee

Quote of the Day

"A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel."
- Pope Francis (via)

Quote of the Day

"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."

- J.R.R. Tolkien 

Quote of the Day

"Sometimes the best book has the dustiest jacket."
- Belle, Once Upon a Time 3.22

Quote of the Day

"To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first."
- Janeane Garofalo

Quote of the Day

"We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were. I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be."
- Joan Didion, "On Keeping a Notebook"

Quote of the Day

"Depression? I don't think so, pal. Would a depressed person have the energy to drink two bottles of wine a night?"
- Mindy, The Mindy Project  4.08

Quote of the Day

"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me."

- Psalm 51:10

Quote of the Day

"The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself as a person, is by creative work of her own."
- Betty Friedan

Quote of the Day

"You have exhausted all your talking rights by being crazy."
- Lorelai, Gilmore Girls 1.12

Quote of the Day

"He did not say you would not be troubled, you would not be tempted, you would not be distressed; but He did say you would not be overcome."
- St. Jose Maria Escriva

Quote of the Day

"We should save some cat videos. That's part of our culture. But we shouldn't save a million cat videos."
- Deanna Marcum, archivist (via)