Hey you –All our fevered history won't instill insight, won't turn a body conscious, won't make that look in the eyes say yes, though there is nothingto solve even as each moment is an answer.
Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).
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Jess C. Scott
How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen...
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Margaret Atwood
Denna is a wild thing, " I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your house, or breaks a tree, you don't say the storm was mean. It was cruel. It acted according to its nature and something unfortunately...
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Patrick Rothfuss
A stumble may prevent a fall.
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Thomas Fuller
You don't read Gatsby, I said, to learn whether adultery is good or bad but to learn about how complicated issues such as adultery and fidelity and marriage are. A great novel heightens your senses and sensitivity to the complexities of life and of individuals,...
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Azar Nafisi
More Quotes By Claudia Rankine
And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.
Or one meaning of here is “in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of, ” or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebody– Here you are. Here, he said...
-(I)n memory, remorse wraps the self.
Sad is one of those words that has given up its life for our country, it's been a martyr for the American dream, it's been neutralized, co-opted by our culture to suggest a tinge of discomfort that lasts the time it takes for this and...
In a taxi speeding uptown on the West Side Highway, I let my thoughts drift below the surface of the Hudson until it finally occurs to me that feelings fill the gaps created by the indirectness of experience. Though the experience is social, thoughts carry...
