Scribner Books

“...it occurred to me that I could use the energy I had been putting into endurance to change my life. Yet the concept of brunt, of accepting and enduring, still seems to me to have a kind of nobility. It is, perhaps, less intelligent, but there is a stubborn selfhood about it that is dear to me. It can be, quite literally, the only way to survive.”
― Anne Truitt, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist

“German sailors sing a drunken song in the street, and a house spider over the stove spins a new web every night, and to Marie-Laure this is a double cruelty: that everything else keeps living, that the spinning earth does not pause for even an instant in its trip around the sun.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Sometimes it helps to lie. You tell yourself a story, even if you don't know the ending.”
― Megan Mayhew Bergman