57 quotes found
“The river was so blue it seemed to be breathing.”
“a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous queen. and, in reply, a choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted ...”
“Love is the beauty of being.”
“Im not sure. But theres something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. Theres a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerabili...”
“Becoming hurts.”
“When people are cruel it's often said that they have no heart, only a cold space or lump of ice in their chest. This was never true of Avalon. She had no heart, everyone knew, but there was nothing...”
“From the earth, from the air, sustaining forces pour into us--mostly from the earth. To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerful...”
“But in the name of all that is holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?" murmured Kohlrabi.Because I'd been hording words for years, buying them from peddle...”
“The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wondered if the sun here was different than the sun in Nebraska. It seemed gentler, more golden, deepe...”
“She had been born with a different name, to a woman with laughing eyes and warmly whispered words of love whod died degraded and afraid on a misty Irish morning.”
“All great people had critics but they still believe in the beauty of their dreams, fully persuaded to stay focused and determined for the realisationof their dreams.”
“The sacred gift of parenthood is inscribe in the universal words Papa and Mama.”
“Together they spent their whole lives waiting for their luck to change, as though luck were some fabulous tide that would one day flood and consecrate the marshes of our island, christening us in t...”
“The beauty of existence is my joy.”
“Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...”
“Do not waste your time and life, searching for a job. Utilize your special skills to begin your own work.”
“I see harmony in everything.”
“If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in ...”
“You don't need an entire garden bed, to notice the beauty of a flower.”
“The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours.”
