by shenion | Mar 1, 2023 | Quote of the Week
Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is about facing life without flinching. I don’t mean the times...
by shenion | Feb 21, 2023 | Quote of the Week
I realised my life would be full of mundane physical suffering, and that there was nothing special about it. Suffering wouldn’t make me special, and pretending not to suffer wouldn’t make me special. Talking about it, or even writing about it, would not...
by shenion | Feb 21, 2023 | Quote of the Week
This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.- The River of Winged Dreams
by shenion | Feb 7, 2023 | Quote of the Week
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.
by shenion | Jan 30, 2023 | Quote of the Week
“Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another.”- The Three Sisters
