"It's a soft-sounding word, 'never,' but its velvety timbre can't hide its sharp edges...Never pressed down on him. It grabbed him by the neck and shook him. He sucked in a deep breath, sucked in all that never and started to sneeze. Never filled his nose, his eyes, his soaking fur."

-- Kathi Appelt

#Eye Quotes #Necks Quotes #Fur Quotes

“When Sônia [Braga] talked about the script in detail, it was as if she had seen the film [Aquarius] last night, even though it hadn't existed yet. It was a completely bulls - t-less reaction, so I knew it had to be her, and she has been great ever since.”
“Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.”
“My big fish must be somewhere.”
“The first right an immigrant is stripped of is the right to be political.”
“Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible”

Source : Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.256, Univ of California Press
“Image is powerful. But image is also superficial.”
“You don't really care about the trials of tomorrow, rather lay awake in a bed full of sorrow”
“Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.”

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