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“The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
November 16, 2025 at 7:14 PM
“The deeds of men, as footprints in the desert.
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Nothing under the circling moons is fated to last.
Even the sun goes down.”
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
“She’s like a thousand different people right now, all waiting to be, and every time she makes a choice, one of those people goes away forever. Until finally you run out of choices and you are whoever you are.”
November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“She’s like a thousand different people right now, all waiting to be, and every time she makes a choice, one of those people goes away forever. Until finally you run out of choices and you are whoever you are.”
"Later, with strange galaxies turning in strange gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had ever been so sweet, so full." ~ Stephen King
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
"Later, with strange galaxies turning in strange gavotte overhead, neither thought the act of love had ever been so sweet, so full." ~ Stephen King
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
~ Shirley Jackson
~ Shirley Jackson
September 16, 2025 at 12:47 PM
“No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.”
~ Shirley Jackson
~ Shirley Jackson
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
~ David Foster Wallace
~ David Foster Wallace
September 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
~ David Foster Wallace
~ David Foster Wallace
"I saw the true nature of the ordered cosmos upon which I had based my hopes: its mutability and insubstantiality, as if it were merely a castle in the sand waiting helplessly and absurdly upon a deserted shore for the ravenous tide to flow in and devour it." ~ Matt Cardin
September 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
"I saw the true nature of the ordered cosmos upon which I had based my hopes: its mutability and insubstantiality, as if it were merely a castle in the sand waiting helplessly and absurdly upon a deserted shore for the ravenous tide to flow in and devour it." ~ Matt Cardin
"Time flowed by like a black river that I watched from a stationary point on some undefined shore. I hovered above everything, clung to nothing, and regarded the world and its inhabitants as figments of a fleeting and pointless dream."
~ Matt Cardin
~ Matt Cardin
September 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"Time flowed by like a black river that I watched from a stationary point on some undefined shore. I hovered above everything, clung to nothing, and regarded the world and its inhabitants as figments of a fleeting and pointless dream."
~ Matt Cardin
~ Matt Cardin
"The crack that runs through everything reaches across all time and space, travels jaggedly through all past and all potentiality. It is the slow fracture in the ice, the worm coring its way through the apple, coring the human heart. It is the following shadow." ~ Laird Barron
August 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"The crack that runs through everything reaches across all time and space, travels jaggedly through all past and all potentiality. It is the slow fracture in the ice, the worm coring its way through the apple, coring the human heart. It is the following shadow." ~ Laird Barron
"Time is a ring. Everyone and everything gets squished under the wheel." ~ Laird Barron
July 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"Time is a ring. Everyone and everything gets squished under the wheel." ~ Laird Barron
"Enlightenment isn't necessarily a clean process. Enlightenment can be filthy, desperate, dangerous. Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you."
~ Laird Barron
~ Laird Barron
July 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
"Enlightenment isn't necessarily a clean process. Enlightenment can be filthy, desperate, dangerous. Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you."
~ Laird Barron
~ Laird Barron
"Children are dying. That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world are hidden in those three words." ~ Steven Erickson
July 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
"Children are dying. That's a succinct summary of humankind, I'd say. Who needs tomes and volumes of history? Children are dying. The injustices of the world are hidden in those three words." ~ Steven Erickson
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
July 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
LIT LOUNGE ON 4 JULY
June 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
LIT LOUNGE ON 4 JULY
“From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
June 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
“From childhood’s hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.” ~ Edgar Allan Poe
"These bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.” ~ Algernon Blackwood
June 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"These bushes, crowding huddled about us, assumed for me in the darkness a bizarre grotesquerie of appearance that lent to them somehow the aspect of purposeful and living creatures. Their very ordinariness, I felt, masked what was malignant and hostile to us.” ~ Algernon Blackwood
“How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself?” ~ Dostoevsky
June 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
“How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself?” ~ Dostoevsky
“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and The Devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
May 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and The Devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
May 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
“To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it’s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.” ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
~ Clive Barker
~ Clive Barker
May 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
~ Clive Barker
~ Clive Barker
"There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative. One need not accept responsibility for the world as it is, and by extension, one need do nothing about it." ~ Steven Erikson
April 22, 2025 at 12:37 PM
"There is something profoundly cynical, my friends, in the notion of paradise after death. The lure is evasion. The promise is excusative. One need not accept responsibility for the world as it is, and by extension, one need do nothing about it." ~ Steven Erikson
Reading event @ 8:00 pm on 17 April. Don’t miss it!
April 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Reading event @ 8:00 pm on 17 April. Don’t miss it!