"His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face. Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down."

-- Holly Black

#Sweet Quotes #Love You Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears we caused by forgetting Thy love. Forgive us, Lord, for the curse we falsely attributed to their name as Jews. Forgive us for crucifying Thee a second time in their flesh. For we knew not what we did.”
“I always tell Bobby he was up in the air so so long that I had had time to shower and change before he hit the ice.”
“I always imagined that to bring an orchestra to play together is not enough for a conductor.”
“Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.”
“Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”
“Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.”
“When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.”

Source : "Pulitzer Prize-Winner Sharon Olds Talks Poetry, Divorce" By Brittany Wong, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 17, 2013.
“The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.”

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