"Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the notes falling into the air like stones into water, rippling the invisible surface of the world. Waves of sound, waves of light: his father had tried to pin everything down, but the world was fluid and could not be contained."

-- Kim Edwards

#Father Quotes #Fall Quotes #Air Quotes

“You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.”
“No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.”
“One learns the art of dying by learning the art of living: how to become master of the present moment.”

Source : S. N. Goenka (2012). “Discourse Summaries”, Pariyatti Publishing
“It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.”
“I feel like this thing [that] we're rocking back and forth like we're stuck in a snow bank and we all sort of know it. I feel like people are getting less and less pretentious and less and less hip - hopefully.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I should have told You before talking in terms of Forever that any given day wears me out and works me sour, that there are nights when the sky is so clear I stand obnoxious underneath it begging for the stars to shoot at me just so I can feel at Home.”

Source : Buddy Wakefield (2013). “Live for a Living”, p.24, SCB Distributors
“From day one, my mantra has been - and will continue to be - that as a government we were there to serve the people, not the other way around.”
“Movement is meditation. Move to win.”

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