Date: 1999

"But my mother told me that just the opposite was true. That the pictures in your mind were always more beautiful than what was in the world."

— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)

Date: 1999

"'How do you expect to learn anything when you fill your mind with garbage?' he said."

— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)

Date: 1999

"A soul was like a worm in an apple, my mother told me."

— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)

Date: 1999

"Just as birds are lifted up into the air by their feathers and can remain wherever they wish, the soul in the body is elevated by thought and spreads its wings everywhere."

— Offill, Jenny (b. 1968)

Date: June 19, 2000

"The record she'd given me was playing in my mind, and I kept trying to shut it off."

— Packer, ZZ (b. 1973)

Date: June 19, 2000

"The words slid from my brain, and knotted in my stomach."

— Packer, ZZ (b. 1973)

Date: 2002

"Alex believed in that God Chip in the brain, something created to process and trigger wonderment."

— Smith, Zadie (b. 1975)

Date: October 5th, 2007

"I didn't like looking at people when I did it, like those tribes afraid part of their soul will peel away if someone takes a picture of them."

— Packer, ZZ (b. 1973)

Date: 2007

"In my mind's eye the road to London is always wet in the winter, and since that is the only eye with which I shall ever see it, wet it remains."

— Gee, Sophie

Date: 2007

"'Happily for us both, the eye of the mind may visit Miss Fermor in her nightgown at any hour,' he said."

— Gee, Sophie