"Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last."

-- Kevin Brockmeier

#Knowing Quotes #Rose Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Once doubt begins it spreads rapidly.”
“What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.”
“Unicef's education initiative does not seek to impose, but to initiate and integrate. It does, however, aim to address the huge bias towards education for boys at the expense of girls in so many cultures.”
“God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant.”
“The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.”
“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
“They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.”
“A man by tumbling his thoughts, and forming them into expressions, gives them a new fermentation, which works them into a finer body.”

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