Scott

“床前明月光 疑是地上霜 举头望明月 低头思故乡 《静夜思》 Moonlight spreads before my bed. I wonder if it’s hoarfrost on the ground. I raise my head to watch the moon And lowering it, I think of home. “REFLECTION IN A QUIET”
― Ha Jin, The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai

“summed up his principle of poetic composition this way: “Lotus flowers come out of limpid water, / Natural without any decoration.”
― Ha Jin, The Banished Immortal: A Life of Li Bai

“there was two Bibles,” he said. “Or one, but it been split in half. He said half’s in the book, on paper. But the other half is inside people. You born with it, but it’s up to you to find out. You gotta learn to see it for yourself. That’s the only way.”
― Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead

“To them life is like a book with blank pages. But to the detective, it is an illuminated manuscript of mysteries.”
― Sara Gran, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead