Packsack Quotes

#1. Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Carl Sandburg

#2. It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

Lena Dunham

#3. Travis, if I don't come back ... avenge me."
Dimples in full view, Travis laughed. "It would be my pleasure.

J.L. Weil

#4. Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

A. B. Yehoshua

#5. Hong Kong cinema is something you can't duplicate anyway.

Martin Scorsese

#6. Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods.

Chuck Todd

#7. A society that's addicted to narratives with beginnings, middles, and endings will eventually yearn to end. We just want it to end.

Douglas Rushkoff

#8. Once allow your soul to be disturbed by any violent emotion and, like the waters of a tempest-tossed lake, it can no longer reflect the divine Image.

Monica Baldwin

#9. My belief system operated on the notion that the good things in my life were a universal hiccup where doom surely loomed.

Janet Mock

#10. My go-to shoes for everyday would probably have to be either my white Converse that I've had since high school or my black Alexander McQueen flats with the skull on the top. It depends on my day.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#11. I do question everything. But I want to have my questions. I want to have more thoughts than my mind can hold, so many that I have to write them in fragments like a madman.

Lauren DeStefano

#12. Refuse the old means of measurement.
Rely instead on the thrumming wilderness of self. Listen.
-From "Out West

Donika Kelly

#13. You twist logic to your own purposes." "It's a lawyer's duty," sniffed Phloxia,

Rachel Hartman

#14. Tactile than olfactory - but I could discern nothing else about it.

Rachel Hartman