Welcome! This is primarily a place for me to record the most important books, movies, essays, and articles I read as I keep learning and exploring in my education at Regis University. Materials are organized categorically by theme, usually the classes I read them in, and chronologically by either their publication date or the time period they deal with. This timeline is a work in progress as I'm still learning, so check back soon to see what else I've been up to!
"My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash." –Alphonse Frankenstein
"A termagant wife may, therefore, in some respects, be considered a tolerable blessing; and if so, Rip Van Winkle was thrice blessed." –Washington Irving
"Good Heaven! it is he! it is that very lump of bashfulness and phlegm which for weeks has done nothing but eat when you were by." –Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Ha!—would a madman have been so wise as this?" –Edgar Allan Poe
"Georgiana turned over the volumes of his scientific library." -Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you." –Senator John Bird
"...and each erected sword is so borne, edge-outward, before each girl." –Herman Melville
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of their or impede their efforts to obtain it." –John Stuart Mill
"The brain is just the weight of God, / For, lift them, pound for pound, / And they will differ, if they do, / As syllable from sound." –Emily Dickinson
"Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies." –Walt Whitman
"The great poems, Shakspere included, are poisonous to the idea of the pride and dignity of the common people, the life blood of democracy." –Walt Whitman
"A Word that breathes distinctly / Has not the power to die." –Emily Dickinson
"She disappeared among the reeds and willows that grew thick along the banks of the deep, sluggish bayou; and she did not come back again." –"Désirée's Baby"
"How do you know what I think?" –The Governess, "The Turn of the Screw"
"Ya te cansaste de andar descalza de pie y pierna, como las mujers de bien, ¿eh, condenada?" –Clodio, "Las Medias Rojas"
"The thing was not to talk, but to do; the thing was to get a hold of others and rouse them, to organize them and prepare for the fight!" –The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
"The Myth of War Experience... was meant to displace the reality of war." –George Mosse
"Noche a noche, desde que Alicia había caído en cama, había aplicado sigilosamente su boca -su trompa, mejor dicho- a las sienes de aquélla, chupándole la sangre. La picadura era casi imperceptible." –Horacio Quiroga, "El Almohadón de Plumas"
"He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty." –Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby
"Death cut the strings that gave me life, / And handed me to Sorrow, / The only kind of middle wife / my folks could beg or borrow." –Countee Cullen
"And why are you pointing upwards?" –Angelina Weld Grimke
"A professional soldier's duty was simply to fight whomever the King ordered him to fight." –Robert Graves
"A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." –Virginia Woolf
"My mother is a fish." –Vardaman Bundren
"He already possesses the power to become great if he will use it." –Dwarf-chief, Plenty Coups: Chief of the Crows
"I am here to help you to find, take back, and keep your righteous mind." –Melvin B. Tolson
"¡Mi hija ha muerto virgen!" –Bernarda Alba, "La Casa de Bernarda Alba"
"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind." –Catch-22
"[A] priest cannot remain outside the city just to preserve his life." –Fr. Arrupe
"It is clear that in dreaming of himself as donor, liberator, redeemer, man still desires the subjection of woman; for in order to awaken the Sleeping Beauty, she must have been put to sleep; ogres and dragons must be about if there are to be captive princesses." –Simone de Beauvoir
"Who was Buckeye the Rabbit?" –Old Friendly Face
"Most of us are more afraid of getting hurt than of getting killed." –Soldier
"My husband always said being any kind of a servant wasn't a fit thing for a man to have to be." –Mama, A Raisin in the Sun
"The key word in Platonic ethics is Virtue..." –Bernard Mayo
"What has been less appreciated about Vatican II [...] is that it took account of the world outside the church." –John W. O'Malley
"Dying / Is an art, like everything else. / I do it exceptionally well." –Sylvia Plath, "Lady Lazarus"
"A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God." –Martin Luther King, Jr.
"Whether you are a Christian, or a Muslim, or a Nationalist, we all have the same problem. They don't hang you because you're a Baptist; they hang you 'cause you're black. They don't attack me because I'm a Muslim; they attack me because I'm black." –Malcolm X, "The Ballot or the Bullet"
"Properly speaking, a history of the Thirty-first Congregation cannot yet be written." –John W. Padburg, S.J.
"Querían crear una alternativa a la Universidad de El Salvador para formar profesionalmente a los egresados de los colegios católicos." – "Fundación," La UCA
"Thanks, Rosencrantz (turning to Ros who is caught unprepared, while Guil bows) and gentle Guildenstern (turning to Guil who is bent double)." –Claudius
"To notice is to select, to regard some bits of perception, or some features of the world, as more noteworthy, more significant, than others." –Alan Watts
"In associations of men and women and among peoples there is arising a new awareness which spurs them on to liberate themselves and to be responsible for their own destiny." –from the "Justice in the World" Opening Statement
"Just as we are never sure that we love God unless we love others, so we are never sure that we have love at all unless our love issues in works of justice." –Fr. Arrupe
"There is something that it is like to be a bat." –Thomas Nagel
"He'd be a knowledge-motivated person. He would need no external pushing to learn. His push would come from inside. He'd be a free man. [...] He'd be there to learn something, would be paying to learn something and they'd better come up with it." –Robert Pirsig
"Consequently we must undertake a thoroughgoing reassessment of our traditional apostolic methods, attitudes and institutions with a view to adapting them to the new needs of the times and to a world in process of rapid change." –Decree 4 of GC 32
"It wasn't true what he'd said to Susan Byrd: that it wasn't important to find his people." –(Milkman)
"‘I know they will kill me one day. And I already forgive them.’" –Óscar Romero
"That is the way with amputations. They don't just heal up like a wish." –Anne Sexton, "Cinderella"
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