Anthologies Quotes

“Journey through the Power of the Rainbow represents a condensed compendium of literary efforts from a life dedicated to transforming the themes of injustice, grief, and despair that we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.”
― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

“I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.”
― Constance Renfrow, Songs of My Selfie: An Anthology of Millennial Stories

“Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.”
― Mina Holmes, "Small Bump" Songs of my Selfie

“History is finite-there's only so much you can learn about a six square block historic district in New York City. (Dark City Lights)”
― Kat Georges

“She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her.”
― Mary Papas, Take Off Your Mask

“Why is it so hard? It's hard because it matters, I think.”
― Mina Homes, "Small Bump" Songs of my Selfie

“You were just a young girl not wanting to let on that death could happen to one who hadn't even lived yet.”
― Katherine Sloan, "Because you Were Under 30" Songs of my Selfie

“I was always the last to leave. That was my great skill.”
― Tara Isabella Burton, "Here in Avalon" Songs of my Selfie

“Forgiving himself came easy to him. His, he'd come to realize, was a forgiving nature.”
― Lawrence Block, Dark City Lights: New York Short Stories

“I worked all day in back ofa hot van snipping off dog balls, I can cut one more pair. (Dark City Lights)”
― Thomas Pluck

“Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.”
― Brian Koppelman

“The runway splayed out at her feet and at its height were the limits of the world.”
― Theresa Buchta "Victoria" Songs of my Selfie

“There's comfort in a life lived in circles and its careful, sloping lines.”
― Jared Shaffer, "Use Without Pity" Songs of my Selfie

“That was the thing about love in my time: that it had no rationale.”
― Aaron Thorpe, "On Loving Like a Human" Songs of my Selfie

“Cigarette smoke when i didn't ask for it. Never when I did.”
― Ifra Asad, "The Ostrich Effect" Songs of my Selfie

“Everyone loves a goddamned trainwreck, after all.”
― Carolyn Drake, "Pill Pusher" Songs of my Selfie

“He didn't give a shit if Shakespeare didn't have glitter back in his day.”
― Tiffany Ferentini, "Glitter and Glue" Songs of my Selfie

“I never sleep well when I'm on call.”
― Joshua Tuttle, "On Call" Songs of my Selfie

“I'm looking for something new to believe in that isn't the way people yearn at night in the city.”
― Constance Renfrow, "The Edge of Happiness" Songs of my Selfie

“I just want to always be here. In this place. Right here, right now.”
― Xingyue Sarah He, "Minnows" Songs of my Selfie

“What is it about people whose objects have so clearly lived?”
― Suzanne Herman, "The Most Laid-Back Guy Ever" Songs of my Selfie

“At least a hospital stay will give him an excuse to halt the job hunt.”
― Stephanie Bramson, "Becoming John Doe" Songs of my Selfie

“We skipped right over Walmart on the ladder down.”
― Tyler Barton, "Ten Things I Learned Since College" Songs of my Selfie

“The runway splayed out at her feet and at its height were the limits of the world.”
― Theresa Buchta

“There's comfort in a life lived in circles and its careful, sloping lines.”
― Jared Shaffer

“Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man from back home is talking, you better listen closely. (Dark City Lights)”
― Brian Koppelman

“A New York plate that said you die. (Dark City Lights)”
― Ed Park

“I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)”
― Jerrold Mundis