Digging

Between my finger and my thumb

The squat pen rests. 

I'll dig with it. 

~Seamus Heaney

Sever

And I wrap my arms around him, because I am human and selfish and breathing. I'm still alive and I don't know for how long, or what for. I shudder and sob, and the guilt and the hurt are so heavy, but not so much that it stops my heart from beating. 

~Lauren DeStefano

Sever

There's a limit to how much living can be done in a life without freedom. 

~Lauren DeStefano

Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog

I am his Highness' dog at Kew;

Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

~Alexander Pope

Sever

He says just one word to his son, nodding into the daylight. "Look."

It's an astounding word. It's a gift. 

Bowen looks, and for now everything he sees is beautiful. 

~Lauren DeStefano

We Bought a Zoo

"You know, sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage. Just, literally, 20 seconds of embarrassing bravery. And I promise you...something great will come of it."

~Benjamin Mee (Matt Damon)

Sever

"It taught me that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes."

~Lauren DeStefano (said by character Linden Ashby)

Vow

I can't use what I can't abuse 

~Garbage

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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. 

~Salvador Dali