28 October 2010
literary quote of the day (10/28/10)
“And besides,” he almost writes, “This book is my mentor. Don’t you see? For you to want to throw it out the window is like saying you want to hurt one of my nearest and dearest friends. I met a Jesus I never knew in this book; the one who says, ‘Trample! Trample! I more than anyone know of the pain in your foot. Trample! It was to be trampled on by men that I was born into this world. It was to share men’s pain that I carried my cross!’ (171). Can’t you see I need a Jesus who says such words? How desperate I am for the Jesus who suffers beside me through my dark night of the soul.”
Robby Christopher Prenkert, On the Wonder of Mentors Never Met: A Memoir of a Reading Life, Part I
27 October 2010
literary quote of the day (10/27/10)
Rage:
Sing, Goddess, Achilles' rage,
Black and murderous, that cost the Greeks
Incalculable pain, pitched countless souls
Of heroes into Hades' dark,
And left their bodies to rot as feasts
For dogs and birds, as Zeus' will was done.
Begin with the clash between Agamemnon--
The Greek warlord--and godlike Achilles.
Homer, Iliad
26 October 2010
literary quote of the day (10/26/10)
"I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us, on the inside, looking out. Like you say, inside out. Jonathan, in this way, I will always be along the side of your life. And you will always be along the side of mine."
Alex, in Everything Is Illuminated
25 October 2010
literary quote of the day (10-25-10)
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