"The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed."

-- Karin Lowachee

#Needs Quotes #Patient Quotes #Breathe Quotes

“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I may never lose it? I want to kneel as it falls over me like rain, gather it up with lace and silk, and press it over myself again.”
“Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.”
“We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world from a spirituality of the divine as revealed in words to a spirituality of the divine as revealed in the visible world about us..”
“No man could be equipped for the presidency if he has never been tempted by one of the seven cardinal sins.”
“I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to come up with new names for ourselves, and that the names we give ourselves must no longer reflect a fear of being labeled outsiders, must no longer bind us to a system that would rather see us dead.”
“Yes, Iâ€™m a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends,â€ said Rirped, picking up a hunk of dried beef. He tore a off a piece with his teeth and noticed Boots hadnâ€™t moved. He pulled back his lips to reveal a row of jagged teeth and gave her a sharp hiss.”
“I love folk; that's a big part of my background.”
“Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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