"You can't test courage cautiously, so I ran hard and waved my arms hard, happy."

-- Annie Dillard

#Arms Quotes #Tests Quotes #Ran Quotes

“I never listened to country music growing up.”
“Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it.”
“To pretend I was sliding down the stair rail." He laughed again. " You should have done it. I would have caught you at the bottom.”
“How terrible it is to have no cares, no longings. I do not fit. I feel too deeply and want too much. As cages go, it is a gilded one, but I shall not live well in it or any cage for that matter.”
“Everyone needs some time to unwind. There are even coloring book clubs popping up in every state now, so it's not such an isolating experience. People are getting together specifically to color. It's amazing.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com
“On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.”
“I want to explain everything to him, show him that itâ€™s really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.”

Source : Jonathan Tropper (2007). “How to Talk to a Widower”, p.3, Bantam
“Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.”

Source : 1697 Almeria to Leonora. The Mourning Bride, act 1, sc.1.

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