Dessie Bisbee

“Half a page --- and the morning is already ancient.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family

“I don’t know, Pierce. But I do know that when men are frightened and discontented they gather around any man who is not afraid.”
― Pearl S. Buck, The Angry Wife

“Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.”
― Pablo Neruda

“Light flashed in her eyes. In fact, it clung to her—flaring around her skin, her hair, her whole body. It was a trick of the eyes, his mind, when adrenaline hit his system. But she glowed. Vivid. Alive. And for a moment, he’d have given anything to be like her.”
― J. Rose Black, Losing My Breath