"The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning."

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Source : David Quammen (2012). “Wild Thoughts from Wild Places”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

David Quammen

#Underwater Quotes #Yearning Quotes #Creatures Quotes

“I'd say that most of life seems to me to be that way, a mixture of the mundane and the mythic, when you're living the life of the mind.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.”
“That's why I'm happy and why I love this s**t because there's not a moment in the day that I don't feel like I can go in and create a monster record because I love making people feel good. That's my job.”
“I think sometimes I intimidate people. I've been told that. But I feel I'm the least intimidating person possible.”
“Are we going buck-naked, or are we wearing like a bathing suit?”
“So what's your second suggestion?" "Tread lightly." "That's it? That's the best advice you can give me?" "All right, tread very lightly.”
“Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any lasting importance for their development is a very recent invention (or insight if you wish).”
“The world, we'd discovered, doesn't love you like your family loves you.”

Source : Louis Zamperini, David Rensin (2009). “Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II”, p.17, Harper Collins

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