Alexius Choi

“Print is predictable and impersonal, conveying information in a mechanical transaction with the reader’s eye.

Handwriting, by contrast, resists the eye, reveals its meaning slowly, and is as intimate as skin.”
― Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

“I never had the nerve to go up to him. I was quite afraid that if I tried to say, "Hello, Reverend Thomas," I would choke on the sin of mocking him.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“Their church was far from the others, but they could be heard on Sunday, a half mile away, singing and dancing until they sometimes fell down in a dead faint. Members of the other churches wondered if the Holy Rollers were going to heaven after all their shouting. The suggestion was that they were having their heaven right here on earth.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“...like the roses and begonias they seemed to take and hold the richly filtered evening light.”
― Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty