Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Cesare to Macchiavelli (October, 1502), as quoted by Rafael Sabatini, 'The Life of Cesare Borgia', Chapter XV: Macchiavelli's Legation
Kate DiCamillo book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”
Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The devil still rebelled, despite having lived in paradise for many years.”
Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author
David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger
Rebel Rebel
Song lyrics, Diamond Dogs (1974)
“A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.”
Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer
“My thoughts are stars I can’t fathom into constellations.”
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States
Wanderlust: A History of Walking (2001)
Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
Context: Walking has been one of the constellations in the starry sky of human culture, a constellation whose three stars are the body, the imagination, and the wide-open world, and though all three exist independently, it is the lines drawn between them—drawn by the act of walking for cultural purposes—that makes them a constellation. Constellations are not natural phenomena but cultural impositions; the lines drawn between stars are like paths worn by the imagination of those who have gone before. This constellation called walking has a history, the history trod out by all those poets and philosophers and insurrectionaries, by jaywalkers, streetwalkers, pilgrims, tourists, hikers, mountaineers, but whether it has a future depends on whether those connecting paths are traveled still.
“Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].”
Walter Benjamin book The Origin of German Tragic Drama
Source: The Origin of German Tragic Drama