“I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!” PeopleWellsStillsReasonDoneStoriesJobsAmericaReligiousEconomicGenderGoldenParisImmigrantsGood JobFleece Author:Jacques Pepin
“Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantI CanStoriesLightPastGirlNeededTerribleOppositesSeasonsShiningGoldenWickedGet BackPrimeDo You KnowSpringtimeParishDaffodil Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“The death-change comes. Death is another life. We bow our heads At going out, we think, and enter straight Another golden chamber of the king's Larger than this we leave, and lovelier. And then in shadowy glimpses, disconnect, The story, flower-like, closes thus its leaves. The will of God is all in all. He makes, Destroys, remakes, for His own pleasure, all.” ThinkingStoriesDeathPleasureFlowerKingsGods WillGoldenBowsGoing OutGlimpseChamberRemakesAnother Life Book:Festus: a poem Source: Festus: a poem
“Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?” I CanWholeStoriesSongSeaGloryGolden Author:Trevor Hall
“In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.” YearsTwoSelfStoriesAgeSportsSidesChallengesPlayerShareVoteTwentiesMalesGoldenFulfillmentTennisStatus QuoEngagingHeadlinesHeroinesRight To VoteGolden AgeRoaringCounterpartsAmerican WomanSwimmerHelenTennis PlayerGertrudeChallenging The Status QuoSelf FulfillmentRoaring Twenties Author:Donna de Varona
“Golden volumes! richest treasures, Objects of delicious pleasures! You my eyes rejoicing please, You my hand in rapture seize! Brilliant wits and musing sages, Lights who beam'd through many ages! Left to your conscious leaves their story, And dared to trust you with their glory; And now their hope of fame achiev'd, Dear volumes! you have not deceived!” BookStoriesHandsLightEyeAgeLeftPleasureObjectsPleaseFameGloryConsciousDearBrilliantWitTreasureGoldenRejoiceVolumeSageDeliciousDeceivedBeamRaptureMusings Author:Isaac D'Israeli