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Brave New Family, G.K. Chesterton, Literary Lines

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

~ G.K. Chesterton, Brave New Family ~

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“A Familiar Rain”, John Geddes, Literary Lines

 

December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory…

~ John Geddes, A Familiar Rain ~

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Literary Lines, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union

It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That’s what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts.

~ Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union ~

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”The Haunting of Hill House”, Literary Lines, Shirley Jackson

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. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House and whatever walked there, walked alone.

~ Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House ~

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”Spinster”, Google Doodle, Literary Lines, Poetry, Sophie Diao, Sylvia Plath

Today’s Google Doodle honors acclaimed yet tortured writer Sylvia Plath, who if she had lived, would have turned 87 years-old today. Plath battled severe depression before tragically taking her own life in 1963. The stunning artwork by Sophie Diao is a reference to Plath’s 1956 poem Spinster.

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Edgar Allan Poe, Literary Lines, The Premature Burial

The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins.

~ Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial ~

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”It”, Literary Lines, Stephen King

I’m every nightmare you’ve ever had. I am your worst dream come true. I am everything you ever were afraid of!

~ Stephen King, It ~

Literary Lines ~ Banned Books Week

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Banned Books Week, Literary Lines

During Banned Books Week every year, there’s a lot of discussion about books and authors who have been banned and challenged. Back in 2017, freelance journalist Karina Kolodny had the wonderful idea of putting together powerful quotes from ten of the most commonly banned books in an article for The Huffington Post, and I’d like to share them. If you have a favorite quote from a banned or challenged book, please feel free share them in the comments.

 

Literary Lines ~ Autumn

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Autumn, Literary Lines, Salem’s Lot, Stephen King

But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in a way an old friend will settle in your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since he last saw you. 

~ Stephen King, Salem’s Lot ~

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1984, George Orwell, Literary Lines

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

~ George Orwell, 1984 ~