Cadillac Moon

Big Bang. The Big

Apple, Atom's

Behind him--

no sirens 

in sight. His career

of careening

since--at six--

playing stickball

a car stole

his spleen. 

~Kevin Young

Novel

You are in love. Occupied until the month of August. 

You are in love. --Your sonnets make Her laugh. 

All your friends go off, you are ridiculous. 

~Arthur Rimbaud

Life of Pi

To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. 

~Yann Martel

For One More Day

"The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature," he said. "You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up."

I could spend a lot of time talking about my life after baseball but that pretty much says it. 

~Mitch Albom 

For One More Day

He is respecting the authority of my coach, I am respecting the authority of my father, and this is how the world makes sense, all if us behaving like men. 

~Mitch Albom

A Rose for Emily

We did not say she was crazy then. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which has robbed her, as people will. 

~William Faulkner

For One More Day

And being unheard is the ground floor of giving up, and giving up is the ground floor of doing yourself in. 

So I tried to. 

It's not so much, what's the point? It's more like what's the difference? 

~Mitch Albom