Pocket Notebooks

"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë From her classic novel Jane Eyre. Inspired by the three muses of ancient Greece, the i...

"Hope is the thing with feathers" - Emily Dickinson For this illustration, we used Emily Dickinson's own words as line elements to create the "th...

"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin A woman slips off the words that onc...

"My candle burns at both ends;it will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh my friends -It gives a lovely light!" - Edna St. Vincent Millay T...

"Above all, don't lie to yourself." - Fyodor Dostoevsky From The Brothers Karamazov. This passage is so awesome, we included the entire excerpt i...

"The woods are lovely, dark and deep." - Robert Frost Frost’s most anthologized and beloved poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” is decep...

"Do I dare disturb the universe?" - T.S. Eliot A man is trapped in a universe as vast as his desires and as constrained as the expectations that ...

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."  - Marcus Aurelius • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portl...

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." - Soren Kierkegaard This simple observation from Kierkegaard’s journals s...

"We live in the flicker." - Joseph Conrad A lightning bolt splits the night, leaving a lasting impression before it fades into darkness. • Pocket...

"I am excessively diverted." - Jane Austen • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed with vegetable-based...

"And miles to go before I sleep" - Robert Frost From his classic poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Prou...

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly m...

"Exit pursued by a bear." - William Shakespeare "Exit, pursued by a bear" is a stage direction from Shakespeare’s "The Winter’s Tale" that is infa...

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oreg...

"My soul has grown deep like the rivers." - Langston Hughes The river may have carried him to unfamiliar places, but he’s not adrift. • Pocket si...

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth on them." - Ida B. Wells • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon •...

"One who has a why can bear almost any how." - Nietzsche • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed with ve...

"It is not down in any map; true places never are." - Herman Melville Nothing reacquaints us with ourselves quite like travel. Here, we have a ma...

"Be happy for this moment, this moment is your life." - Omar Khayyam This illustration depicts two warring ideas in the Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam ...

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity." - Edgar Allan Poe • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Of...

"Trade your cleverness for wonder." - Rumi As literature lovers, we’re the first to champion words that exquisitely describe the nature of things...

"Become a voice." - Sappho • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed with vegetable-based inks • Cover: 18...

"Invention does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley From the introduction to her novel Frankenstein. We res...