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...

"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...

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

Strive to know yourself, for it is the most difficult lesson in the world." - Cervantes From the extraordinary Don Quixote.  The maxim "know thy...

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again." - Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby I’ve thought about this quotation often ove...

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

"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...

"Beauty will save the world." - Fyodor Dostoevsky Out of context, it would be easy to dismiss this quotation as hopelessly naive. But for Dostoev...

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

"Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson We're always recharged and awed by the stillness in the woods, and it r...

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby • Pocket sized: 3.5 x ...

"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...

"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...

"As soon as I can leave, I shall go to Paris." - George Sand A row a cafe chairs, good for people watching – or in this case, the mascarons that...

"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 ...

"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe From The Maxims and Reflections.  This is it, isn't it? When presented with the uncertainty of ...

"I resolved never to be conquered." - Harriet Jacobs It goes without saying that Harriet Jacobs was an extraordinary human being. From an illit...

"The sea is big and old." - Ernest Hemingway Too simple for your taste? Perhaps he should have gone with "the sea is boundless and ancient," or "...

"For we have thought the longer thoughts, and gone the shorter way." - Ernest Hemingway From his poem Chapter Heading. In his earlier work, Hemi...

"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 •...

"He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." - John Stuart Mill From his classic philosophical treatise On Liberty:  "He ...

"Who will watch the watchers?" - Juvenal Penned in 100 AD, Juneval’s most memorable quotation is a prescient warning about the unchecked power ...

"What am I doing here in this endless winter?" - Franz Kafka From his short, surrealist story, A Country Doctor. Although he died over a century ...

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty." - John Keats Inspired by one of the most famous and hotly debated lines of verse in the English language, this i...

"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...

"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...

"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...

"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter." - John Keats Keats pushes all the right buttons for us. The tension between imaginatio...

"I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees." - Pablo Neruda • 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...

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

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

"And Notre Dame's old gothic towers / Were bathed in roseate bloom." - Letitia Elizabeth Landon  A bicycle with its basket full of flowers in fr...

"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...

"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...

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." - Shakespeare The illustration, inspired by the magic of ...

"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...

"I know why the caged bird sings" - Paul Laurence Dunbar From his beloved poem,Sympathy, which he wrote in 1899 while working as a clerk at the...

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity." - Sun Tzu From The Art of War, the Chinese military treatise dating back to the 5th century BC...

"To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield." - Lord Tennyson • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed ...

"I went t o the woods because I wished to live deliberately." - Henry David Thoreau Frost’s most anthologized and beloved poem, “Stopping by Wood...

"Glimmering twilight things are these, Visions of the end of night." - Paul Verlaine A pair of champagne glasses on a cafe table, the bubbles in...

"Doubt is unpleasant, but certainty is absurd." - Voltaire • Pocket sized: 3.5 x 5 inches • Proudly made in Portland Oregon • Offset printed with...

"It is dangerous to be right when the established authorities are wrong." - Voltaire "Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des ho...