"I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy-tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity. Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then."

-- Richard Brautigan

#Summer Quotes #War Quotes #Dark Quotes

“Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation.”
“Kisses honeyed by oblivion.”
“Once you know about these things, you will also love them, because you will see that without a sense of the sacred, you are less than a man.”

Source : Thomas Yellowtail, Michael Oren Fitzgerald (1994). “Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography”, p.9, University of Oklahoma Press
“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”

Source : Joe Hill (2013). “NOS4R2”, p.222, Hachette UK
“I never wanted to be an actor. I never want to be an actor. I want to be a movie star. The whole idea of having to act is too gruesome. It's too ambitious for me.”
“The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.”

Source : Ronda Rousey (2015). “My Fight / Your Fight”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“It is always darkest before the dawn.”
“I have a book in the pipeline of short stories. You want to hear an agent scream, say 'I'm thinking about doing a collection of short stories set in the Ozarks.”

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