Jeda Quotes & Sayings

It was a lone tree burning on the desert. A heraldic tree that the passing storm had left afire. The solitary pilgrim drawn up before it had traveled far to be here and he knelt in the hot sand and held his numbed hands out while all about in that circle attended companies of lesser auxiliaries routed forth into the inordinate day, small owls that crouched silently and stood from foot to foot and tarantulas and solpugas and vinegarroons and the vicious mygale spiders and beaded lizards with mouths black as a chowdog's, deadly to man, and the little desert basilisks that jet blood from their eyes and the small sandvipers like seemly gods, silent and the same, in Jeda, in Babylon. A constellation of ignited eyes that edged the ring of light all bound in a precarious truce before this torch whose brightness had set back the stars in their sockets. — Cormac McCarthy

If knowledge is power, let's spread it as widely as possible and dilute it to deny those who would abuse it. — Stuart Aken

The day my father killed off my mother was the day he stopped knowing me. — Lucia Berlin

Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least. — William Faulkner

Humanity looks to works of art to shed light upon its path and its destiny. — Pope John Paul II

In Jack's view, you were obliged to sin on Saturday night so you'd have something to atone for Sunday morning. — Lisa Kleypas