Quotationary

Tuesday, February 29, 1944

From the shelf

Nothing in the canon is tethered to February 29. One line is set aside for this year, the same line for every reader.

February 29 stays in the book in common years. The lived calendar skips it. This page does not.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr.Address at the March on Washington · 1963

In 1945 this day opens on George Eliot.

Arrow keys turn the day. S keeps the line. Slash focuses search.