Bev

“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“It’s the age of daring. It’s the only time we have. We must live in the present. We are young and alive.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess: a Novel

“The beauty! The beauty!”
― Junot Diaz, La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao