"For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty."

-- John Cheever

#Grief Quotes #Rain Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It was a battle all day with our M&M's Camry. I don't know why, we just didn't have what we needed. We never seemed to have the ticket we needed today. We got better all day, which was a positive and salvaged something out of nothing -- so all things considering it was okay. It's so late in the year, you're just running laps now and getting what you can get and seeing if you can win next weekend at Homestead to finish the year.”
“If on one day we find the fast-spreading recognition of popular rights accompanied by a silent, growing perception of the rights of women, we also find it accompanied by a tendency towards a system of non-coercive education--that is, towards a practical illustration of the rights of children.”
“I always love to come to Austin.”
“Yet for every peak there is a valley.”

Source : Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper
“You're more than just neither, honey. There's other ways to be than either-or. It's not so simple. Otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who don't fit.”

Source : Leslie Feinberg (2010). “Stone Butch Blues”, p.397, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.”
“Sunshine of late afternoon-- On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying--And the immaculate white bed”
“I can't live without my iPhone.”

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