"The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I knew, to kill me, violent enough to break me apart. The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand. The farther I went, the more desolate it became, more than any place I'd been, but for this very reason the landscape drew me, claimed me as nothing had in a long time."

-- Jhumpa Lahiri

#Beach Quotes #Color Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.”

Source : George Zebrowski (2014). “Macrolife: A Mobile Utopia”, p.70, Open Road Media
“What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.”
“I'm mainstream. Always have been.”
“If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.”
“I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.”
“Am I, or the others crazy?”
“The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.”
“Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.”

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