"I was only twelve, but through the slow, inevitable burn of a thousand sunrises and sunsets, a thousand maps traced and retraced, I had already absorbed the valuable precept that everything crumbled into itself eventually, and to cultivate a crankiness about this was just a waste of time."

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Source : Reif Larsen (2010). “The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

Reif Larsen

#Sunset Quotes #Sunrise Quotes #Maps Quotes

“Murder isn't that bad, we all die sometime anyway.”
“It cannot be doubted that theistic belief is a comfort and a solace to those who hold it, and that the loss of it is a very painful loss. It cannot be doubted, at least, by many of us in this generation, who either profess it now, or received it in our childhood and have parted from it since with such searching trouble as only cradle-faiths can cause. We have seen the spring sun shine out of an empty heaven, to light up a soulless earth; we have felt with utter loneliness that the Great Companion is dead.”

Source : William Kingdon Clifford (1999). “The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays”, Pyr Books
“I love bookshelves, and stacks of books, spines, typography, and the feel of pages between my fingertips. I love bookmarks, and old bindings, and stars in margins next to beautiful passages. I love exuberant underlinings that recall to me a swoon of language-love from a long-ago reading, something I hoped to remember. I love book plates, and inscriptions in gifts from loved ones, I love author signatures, and I love books sitting around reminding me of them, being present in my life, being. I love books.”
“I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.”

Source : Source: blog.ticketmaster.co.uk
“Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.”
“The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.”
“The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.”

Source : Winifred Holtby (2007). “Virginia Woolf: A Critical Memoir”, Bloomsbury Academic
“But flowers feed our soul in a different way. They remind us of a God who creates beautiful things and takes notice of the tiniest detail”

Source : FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Dec 02, 2014

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