"After a few mouthfuls of moon-flavored air, even the stubbornly drowsy can find themselves wide-eyed.. All the normal noises of life were gone, leaving behind the secretive sounds, the shy sounds, the whispers and conversations of moss disputing with grass over some soft piece of earth, or the hummingbird snoring."

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Source : N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.17, Random House Books for Young Readers

N.D. Wilson

#Moon Quotes #Air Quotes #Leaving Quotes

“During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.”

Source : John Frohnmayer (1993). “Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Keep doing what you like to do. That's all it is.”
“She [my wife] has had a Caesarean, so she can't bend over. It's a good excuse [for not changing nappies], I suppose.”
“Your face will freeze like that, you know, Kat," Raffin said helpfully to Katsa. "Maybe I should rearrange your face, Raff," said Katsa. "I should like smaller ears," Raffin offered. "Prince Raffin has nice, handsome ears," Helda said, not looking up from her knitting. "As will his children. Your children will have no ears at all, My Lady," she said sternly to Katsa. Katsa stared back at her, flabbergasted. "I believe it's more that her ears won't have children," began Raffin, "which, you'll agree, sounds much lessâ€””
“I threw up again that night, half-afraid that my eyeballs would explode. But it was, by far, more important that I get rid of dinner. Of course, by then, throwing up was the only way I knew how to deal with fear. That paradox would begin to run my life: to know that what you are doing is hurting you, maybe killing you, and to be afraid of that fact--but to cling to the idea that this will save you, it will, in the end, make things okay.”
“Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night?”
“The subject matter... is not that collection of solid, static objects extended in space but the life that is lived in the scene that it composes...”
“Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.”

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