Jack Delaney

“In the night sea at Walberswick, I have seen bodies fiery with phosphorescent plankton striking through the neon waves like dragons.”
― Roger Deakin, Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain

“In German, I became happy again; maybe this is why I write in it.”
― Emine Sevgi Özdamar

“The circus has developed its own natural laws: A person who looks clumsy just walking is an athlete. A person who can make the audience laugh is someone to take seriously. I thought that maybe there was something I too could contribute, maybe I could fly.”
― Yōko Tawada, Memoirs of a Polar Bear

“In the summer of 1897, members of the party of the Italian mountaineer Abruzzi, fresh from their conquest of Mount Saint Elias, inflamed barflies and telegraph operators in the town of Yakutat with a tale of having seen, from the slopes of the second-highest Alaskan peak, a city in the sky.”
― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union