“Sometimes I am angry at people everywhere for their stupidity, for their buying into the American way…” – Barry Lopez, “Emory Bear Hands’ Birds”

“Should I wake up & explain myself to you? / Or should I not care? Just sleep the whole day through?” – MxPx, “Under Lock and Key”

“Itself living? Teach me how / To consider the lilies; all they are / Because of, all they are despite.” – Ariana Benson, “Love Poem in the Black Field”

“I gotta get back to the beach in the sun” – MxPx, “Southbound”

“She said things like, ‘everyone wants to belong to a witch,’ and ‘a name is a carnivorous animal.’” – Josh Bell, The Houseboat Veronica

“I miss the birds. // but it’s truer that you ache / for their song. the score that lured / seeds of luster into bloom.” – Ariana Benson, “Aubade After Earth”

“What can I say about Jean-Pierre Léaud? When he’s right, he’s right.” – Alex Miller, ‘White People On Vacation’

“Because you were the first out of everybody here to reach in to get the chicken, you say Grace.” – Dom Toretto, ‘The Fast and The Furious’

“A Great Lake can hold all the mysteries of an ocean, and then some.” – Dan Egan, ‘The Death and Life of The Great Lakes’

“It took the Great Lakes 1000s of years to reach an ecological fullness that left early European explorers grasping for words to capture its majesty” – Dan Egan ‘The Death and Life of The Great Lakes’