"Reading had become his insatiable vice."
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez "'One must always be careful of books,' said Tessa, 'and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.'" - Clockwork Angel, Cassandra Clare "...and I wrote the first faint line, faint, without substance, pure nonsense, pure wisdom of someone who knows nothing, and suddenly I saw the heavens unfastened and open, planets, palpitating plantations, shadow perforated, riddled with arrows, fire and flowers, the winding night, the universe." - "Poetry," Pablo Neruda
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“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
- Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez "Between you and memory everything is water. Names of the dead, or saints, or history." - "The Opposite of Nostalgia," Eric Galaminda “None of us are just one thing, I guess. None of us. We all have the terrible and amazing power to hurt and help, to harm and heal. We all do both throughout our lives. That's the way it is.” - Patron Saints of Nothing, Randy Ribay "The cave is believed to be the home of the giants long before civilization thrived in the nearby barangays. Passages seemed to be carved by mighty yet gentle hands. The rock surface is smooth but edges are sharp. It is imperative to exercise extreme caution when navigating its passages. The cave itself is a humongous limestone rock covered by tropical plants and trees. The cold wind and the greenery in its surroundings is soothing and relaxes every weary soul." - natsf28, TripAdvisor
“What have those lonely mountains worth revealing? More glory and more grief than I can tell:” ― Emily Brontë, The Complete Poems "Paraw (Philippine Spanish: parao) are various double outrigger sail boats in the Philippines. It is a general term (similar to the term bangka) and thus can refer to a range of ship types, from small fishing canoes to large merchant lashed-lug plank boats (balangay or baloto) with two outriggers (katig) propelled by sails (usually a large crab-claw sail opposite a smaller triangular foresail)."
Arnold Boecklin's "Odysseus and Polyphemus" (1896). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Switzerland. 25.9x59in. Oil and tempera on panel. "We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - "Ulysses" Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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AuthorAlessandra Tatoy knows that the power of words is stronger than anything, coming from a country whose fight for independence was sparked by the works of an author sentenced to death of his words. You can find her articles, poetry, short stories, and other musings here. Archives
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