"a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty."

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Source : Caroline Pafford Miller (1993). “Lamb in His Bosom”, Peachtree Pub Limited

Caroline Pafford Miller

#Rain Quotes #Fall Quotes #Heart Quotes

“My parents were very loving, but disciplinarians.”
“I am fortunate enough to have worked on, and continue to work on, evolutionary movies in all formats from just simple good story telling, which still matters most of all, to CG movies to tent-pole size 3D movies, and genre 3D movies like 'Piranha 3D.”
“If you can get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.”
“Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
“All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity.”
“If I did not love what is present, if I could not cling to this enormous, safe parachute, I would long since have fallen into the abyss.”
“... The decrees of the Sovereign Ordainer, as related to fate and predestination, are of two kinds. Both are to be obeyed and accepted. The one is irrevocable, the other is, as termed by men, impending. To the former all must unreservedly submit, inasmuch as it is fixed and settled. God however, is able to alter or repeal it. As the harm that must result from such a change will be greater than if the decree had remained unaltered, all, therefore, should willingly acquiesce in what God hath willed and confidently abide by the same.”
“Making ourselves feel ugly is not fun." "We are ugly.”

Source : Scott Westerfeld (2011). “Uglies”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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