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“I've recovered my tenderness by long looking;I'm a Socrates of small fury.The waves bends with the fish. I'm taughtAs water teaches stone. Believe me, extremest oriole,I can hear light on a dry day...”
“...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...”
“From daybreak to sunset she turned her thoughts, like boulders, over. She set them in long lines. She rearranged their order...”
“Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.”
“One evening he was in his room, his brow pressing hard against the pane, looking, without seeing them, at the chestnut trees in the park, which had lost much of their russet-coloured foliage. A hea...”
“It felt as if Id been teleported to the dark side of the moon, forced to gaze out at the stars and wonder which one Id come from.”
“She is so distinct to me, it's as though I had run my hands all over her.”
“We didn't talk much, and the silence hung like a silk curtain, light and lovely.”
“For lunch, we drove into the hills and parked in the dappled shade of a big sycamore, its powdery white bark like a woman's body against the uncanny blue sky.”
“The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air--a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves.”
“She wanted to reach up to the night and dig her fingers into it, beg it to stay just a little bit longer.”
“Captain West advanced to meet me, and before our outstretched hands touched, before his face broke from repose to greeting and the lips moved to speech, I got the first astonishing impact of his pe...”
“I'm not asking you to describe the rain falling the night the archangel arrived; I'm demanding that you get me wet. Make up your mind, Mr. Writer, and for once in your life be the flowers that smel...”
“Dad and I leave town in the early dark. It's the second Sunday of the holidays, and we pack up the old blue car with enough clothes for summer and hit the road. It's so early he's wiping hills of s...”
“The author distinguishes George Washington's leadership from that of another aristocratic general whose temperament was somewhat cold. Unlike him, Washington made the effort to at least appear to s...”
“the ability to get on the air, which was crucial to any reporters career, grew precisely as the ability to analyze diminished.”
“He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook.”
“I should have realized, when Cathal kissed me in the hallway, that my response was the first raindrop heralding a storm.”
“...All without any more sound than flipping over a playing card. And sitting in this limo, compared to my fifteen-year-old Volkswagen Beetle I'd bought off a friend, was as quiet as sitting at the ...”
“He wanted terribly, to say, Stop, to say Berns name, to stroke her soft cheek where it was bitten by the light. But, in the end, he didnt do anything at all.”
