"I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons."

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Source : Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

Lisa Ann Sandell

#Army Quotes #Voice Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.”
“Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it.”

Source : Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.131, WaterBrook
“I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.”

Source : Jimi Hendrix (2013). “Starting at Zero”, p.11, Heyne Verlag
“It is God's kindness to terrify you in order to lead you to safety.”
“Every championship, by definition, is historic.”
“Enjoy the best things in your life cuz you ainâ€™t gonna get to live it twice.”

Source : Song: Senior Skip Day, Album: K.I.D.S.
“I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.”
“When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.”

Source : "Mathematics and the Imagination".

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