"A man gets used to riding on at the break of day. Comes to think that movement and noise is where life is, when after all there's life in stillness and quiet too."

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Source : Kate Elliott (2009). “Traitors' Gate”, p.182, Macmillan

Kate Elliott

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Riding Quotes

“You never know when someone is videotaping you or trying to capture your image. I see how it makes some people crazy. But I am really lucky. I don't understand it. I really, honestly, am much more focused on my personal life.”
“Those orators who give us much noise and many words, but little argument and less wit, and who are the loudest when least lucid, should take a lesson from the great volume of nature; she often gives us the lightning without the thunder, but never the thunder without the lightning.”
“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.”
“I was a sloppy kid, wanted to be just wild.”
“I have found that-- just as in real life--imagination sometimes has to stand in for experience.”
“And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.”
“Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.”
“Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it. Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time. We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures.”

Source : Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.272, Oneworld Publications

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