Welcome to Coffee Quotes

When reading a great book, or even an insightful article, do you often stop, annotate, and think about the sentence or sentences you just read? I do. Often, I have to take time to digest a good thought; I have to let it steep like a gourmet coffee. This blog is dedicated to all those words that make reading a pleasurable, memorable, insightful activity. What quotes demand your attention?

5/06/2010

Dusk Hour lies...

"Always, when she was left alone at a certain hour in the afternoon, she was a shade beside herself. In the lowest brilliance of the day she wondered who she was."- Momaday from House Made of Dawn.

I find sometimes in "lowest brilliance of the day" I have the feeling of an impending tragedy or winding hollowness being slowly carved out. The transition of day to night is more beautiful, or tragic than I can bare. As far as the loneliness... that's a whole other beautiful crime...

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