I'd have to say that this is my favorite, but then I've always been partial to geeks.

"When your mama was the geek, my dreamlets," Papa would say, "she made the nipping off of noggins such a crystal mystery that the hens themselves yearned toward her, waltzing around her, hypnotized with longing." --Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

100 Best First Lines from Novels. (via ko)

Mormon Temple - Salt Lake City


Fountain outside the LDS temple

If you are interested in finding out more about the Mormon faith, or are as ignorant as I, Under the Banner of Heaven is an absurd and fascinating read about the violent history of the Latter Day Saints, one I imagine most Mormons would decry as blasphemy.

December 25, when the nights begin to be shorter and the days longer. That is the moment of the rebirth of light.

Joseph Campbell - The Power of Myth

In the mirror of reality, of the unbeautiful world, it is hardly reassuring and requires much strength of character to look and see oneself.

Arthur Miller - Focus

The Queen Must Die - And Other Affairs of Bees and Men

Only the continuing life of the colony counts. This is the first commandment of the hive--a manifestation of that mysterious and dispassionate force that guides all bee life. It is called, with little understanding of what it means, "the spirit of the hive."

The primary rule is inflexible: work or die.