"There was so much of beauty here: the neat, small tracks of a foraging creature, stoat or marten; the inticate tracery of a skeleton leaf, still clinging vainly to its parent tree as, little by little, time stripped it of its substance, leaving only the delicate remembrance of what it had been."

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Source : Juliet Marillier (2011). “The Dark Mirror”, p.265, Pan Macmillan

Juliet Marillier

#Skeletons Quotes #Track Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.”
“The greatest Jewish tradition is to laugh. The cornerstone of Jewish survival has always been to find humor in life and in ourselves.”
“In order to be better, you should expect to be better.”
“Success is generally due to holding on, and failure to letting go.”
“I've noticed a funny thing about people who are over-weight. They spend all their time thinking about food -except when they're actually eating it”
“I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.”
“The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.”
“Religions are not revealed: they are evolved. If a religion were revealed by God, that religion would be perfect in whole and in part, and would be as perfect at the first moment of its revelation as after ten thousand years of practice. There has never been a religion which fulfills those conditions.”

Source : Robert Blatchford (1917). “God and My Neighbour”

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