"Branches grew from his hands, his hair. His thoughts tangled like roots in the ground. He strained upward. Pitch ran like tears down his back. His name formed his core; ring upon ring of silence built around it. His face rose high above the forests. Gripped to earth, bending to the wind's fury, he disappeared within himself, behind the hard, wind-scrolled shield of his experiences."

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Source : Patricia A. McKillip (1999). “Riddle-Master”, p.535, Penguin

Patricia A. McKillip

#Hair Quotes #Hands Quotes #Wind Quotes

“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”

Source : "Follow a lady's word: Betty White dispenses some relationship advice for the average male". Q&A, www.heraldextra.com. May 13, 2011.
“Some say an army of horsemen some an army on foot others say ships laden for war are the fairest things on earth. But I say the fairest sight on this dark earth is the face of the one you love. Nor is it hard to understand: love has humbled the hearts of the proudest queens. And I would rather see you now stepping over my threshold than any soldier greaved in gold or any iron-beaked ship.”
“... any woman who accepts aloneness as the natural by-product of success is accepting a punishment for a crime she didn't commit. And she is not acknowledging one of the most precious lessons of the women's movement, the lessons of community ... We may not able to tell women that there is safety in freedom. But we certainly can say, with absolute certainty, that for free women, the only safety is in numbers.”
“The sweetest fragrance, the most beautiful aroma that God has ever detected emanating from this planet, was the aroma of the perfect sacrifice of Jesus that was offered once and for all on the cross.”
“Being sick feels like you're wearing someone else's glasses.”
“Art is as useful as bread.”
“For should your hands drop white and empty All the toys of the world would break.”

Source : John Frederick Nims (1944). “Selected Poems”, p.5, University of Chicago Press
“It's so hard to figure out what's going on in biological systems. You just can't see them.”

Source : "World’s most wired Biophysicist". www.wired.com. August 20, 2012.

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