Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.
David Rabe – Girl by the Road at the Night
Lying Mirror
L
Elusive Happiness
E
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
David Rabe – Girl by the Road at the Night
Short Madness
S
Anger is a short madness.
David Rabe – Girl by the Road at the Night
Joy’s Preparation
J
Sorrow prepares you for joy.
David Rabe – Girl by the Road at the Night
Complex Truth
C
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
David Rabe – Girl by the Road at the Night
Surviving Stupidity
S
Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity.
David Rabe – Girl by the Road at the Night
Love’s Confusion
L
Love is the strange bewilderment that overtakes one person on account of another person.
Antonya Nelson – Bound
Isolation
I
Loneliness can be a prison, a place from which we look out at a world we cannot inhabit.
Antonya Nelson – Bound
Memory vs. Truth
M
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Antonya Nelson – Bound
Solitary Grief
S
Grief is a country with no consulates.
Antonya Nelson – Bound