"Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . ."

-- Hilda Doolittle

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“Begin doing what you want to do now.”
“She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt before. He kissed her and slowed and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made together.”

Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.242, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here.”
“Because God is love, He could not completely cast man aside.”
“In golf, as in no other sport, your principal opponent is youself.”

Source : Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “Herbert Warren Wind's Golf Book”, p.6, Open Road Media
“I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this, but here's my number.' I love to call those people because the first thing they say is, 'Governor, I didn't mean everything I said in the letter about you.'”
“There's just certain things you don't think about to enjoy a film. Bullets in space are one of them.”
“When onstage, I always try to take my audience through as many emotions as I possibly can. I want them to go from laughter to tears, be shocked and surprised and walk out the door with a renewed sense of themselves - and maybe a smile.”

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