Quote of the day

**Magical Realist** · Dec 20, 2023 07:43 PM

“It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My therapist hears confession twice a month, my shrink delivers the host, and I can stand in the woods and see the world spark.”
― David Lovelace, Scattershot: My Bipolar Family

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 20, 2023 11:14 PM by Magical Realist.)

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 21, 2023 08:18 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Each component of this trinity of human endeavor—science, religion, and art—lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an embrace of the mysterious. Where mystery is absent, there can be no wonder.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 22, 2023 12:25 AM by Magical Realist.)

“It was as if humans' lives didn't end per se, but kind of trailed off with punctuating ellipses. After that third dot it was open-ended, brilliantly poised for anything one could imagine. Earth was warm with potential like that.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 22, 2023 09:15 PM by Magical Realist.)

“He rose and walked to the windows. The moon reflected the pristine whiteness blowing into shadowy silvery mounds beneath the stars. It spread out before him, all pure and flowing and sterling. There'd always been a gentle peace and welcome solitude on a wintry night in this house. A place of memories and innocent times; a place for new plans.”
― Dee Holmes, All I Want for Christmas

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 22, 2023 11:11 PM by Magical Realist.)

“Whoever you are, go out into the evening,
leaving your room, of which you know every bit;
your house is the last before the infinite,
whoever you are.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 24, 2023 12:21 AM by Magical Realist.)

"If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.”
― Dorothy Gambrell, Cat and Girl Volume I

**Magical Realist** · Dec 24, 2023 12:21 AM

"Verily the lust for comfort murders
the passion of the soul, and then
walks grinning in the funeral."
—Khalil Gibran, The Prophet

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 25, 2023 12:41 AM by Magical Realist.)

“Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to be unconscious. That was romantic, or would have been had he rushed to my side rather than stepping over my body to fetch the dustpan.”
― David Sedaris, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it." — Freya Stark

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 25, 2023 10:07 PM by Magical Realist.)

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes