shayne

“Some men seem to think that temperance is preservative, that moderation somehow pickles the soul. They would place their beating hearts inside jam jars if they could. Which does beg the question, what on earth are they saving themselves for? —Oren Robinson of the Daily Reverie”
― Josiah Bancroft, The Hod King

“We forget something fundamental as we read:
Every sentence could have been otherwise but isn't.
We can't see all the decisions that led to the final shape of the sentence.
But we can see the residue of those decisions.”
― Verlyn Klinkenborg, Several Short Sentences About Writing