"Claim your space. Draw a circle of light around it. Push back against the dark. Don't just survive. Celebrate."

--

Source : Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.245, Random House

Charles Frazier

#Dark Quotes #Light Quotes #Circles Quotes

“Sometimes I spend all day trying to count the leaves on a single tree... Of course I have to give up, but by then I'm half crazy with the wonder of it--the abundance of the leaves, the quietness of the branches, the hopelessness of my effort. And I am in that delicious and important place, roaring with laughter, full of earth-praise.”
“It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.”
“Everything in life... has to have balance.”
“I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.”
“Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.”
“All women are ambitious naturallie”
“A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.”
“High school sucked. It was a universal truth, and whoever said these were supposed to be the best years of your life was probably drunk or delusional.”

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