Johnathan Mender

“Every stitch i sew will be a kiss.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“the singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle itself.”
― Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

“You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't say a great deal. So much the better, there is no message that indiscreetly outshouts the message that the book itself must communicate directly, that you must extract from the book, however much or little it may be. Of course, this circling of the book, too, this reading around it before reading inside it, is a part of the pleasure in a new book, but like all preliminary pleasures, it has its optimal duration if you want it to serve as a thrust toward the more substantial pleasure of the consummation of the act, namely the reading of the book.”
― Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

“How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.”
― William S. Burroughs