1. “i have hypnotized myself into peace.” – Mary Butts
2. “Life is not a dream. Careful! Careful! Careful! – Federico García Lorca, from “City That Does Not Sleep,” Lorca & Jimenez: Selected Poems
3. “We are getting stale. I call us stale. I can feel us getting stale and it sickens me.” – Jillian Weise, from “How to Treat Flowers,” The Book of Goodbyes
4. “”This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.” – T. S. Eliot, from “The Hollow Men”
5. “And make death proud to take us.” – William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra
6. “Last night the sirens sounded like airplanes and the airplanes sounded like leaving.” – Kristina Haynes, from “Your Face is the Clearest Thing”
7. “”The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.” – John Fowles, The Magus
8. “April is the cruelest month” – T. S. Eliot, from “The Waste Land”
9. “God is not death. God is what survives.” – Mark Jarmon, Unholy Sonnets
10. “I had a dream
about a crystal blue pool.
I felt stupid when I saw the ocean.” – Wendy Xu, from “The News”