Wilbur Keahey

“Unfamiliar insects produced a soft but insistent chirp; a crisp whir like the sound the earth itself might make rolling through the darkness if we all kept quiet enough to hear it. The lights of the condominium complex shone. They were not far away. Still, they looked almost too real and close to touch. They were like holes punched in the night, leaking light from another, more animated world. For a moment I could imagine what it would be like to be a ghost—to walk forever through a silence deeper than silence, to apprehend but never quite reach the lights of home.”
― Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World

“Emergency dance party--go away.”
― Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl

“We are ignorant of the meaning of the dragon in the same way that we are ignorant of the meaning of the universe; but there is something in the dragon’s image that fits man’s imagination, and this accounts for the dragon’s appearance in different places and periods.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings

“I don't know. I don't know anything, really. I just feel. And when the feeling is strong enough, then I just say I know. But I don't...”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn