"Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite."

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Source : "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky". Book by Joy Harjo, www.npr.org. 1994.

Joy Harjo

#Sweet Quotes #Laughing Quotes #Kitchen Quotes

“All things are photographable.”
“I nod like I'm not at all unnerved by this new cold side to him. Not cruel like his father. Not warm like the husband who sought me out on quiet nights. Something in between. This Linden has never woven his fingers through mine, never chosen me from a line of weary Gathered girls, never said he loved me in a myriad of coloured lights. We are nothing to each other.”
“It's nice to share something you're really proud of and worked hard on.”

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“I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.”
“Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know , Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day Which I, before I was, had lived in God 's own way.”

Source : "Cherubinischer Wandersmann". Book by Angelus Silesius (1657) translated by Julia Bilger, 1944.
“I don't want to hear music, I don't want the sunrise to be pink. The world is a liar. Its ugliness is overwhelming; the scraps of beauty make it worse.”
“War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.”
“We all pretend for a while or for a lifetime. But pretending is not living...I believe that God meant for life to take our breath away, sometimes because of the sheer joy of it all and sometimes because of the severe pain. To choose living over pretending means that we will know both.”

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