"A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly on a last strand of daylight fading quietly, like a sigh."

-- Kate Simon

#Summer Quotes #Twilight Quotes #Paris Quotes

“A faint smile that made every tiny hair on her body rise in quivering attention. "How fast can you run?" A wolf's question.”

Source : Nalini Singh (2011). “Kiss of Snow”, p.84, Penguin
“Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.”
“I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.”
“We're so different. You're an intellectual. I'm an idiot." "Don't say that," I yelled. "You're not an idiot, you stupid idiot.”
“There are a lot of questions that come out of the silence. It is so close to the infinite.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration. ... [I]t is not in the power of professors of the demonstrative sciences to alter their opinions at will, so as to be now of one way of thinking and now of another. ... [D]emonstrated conclusions about things in nature of the heavens, do not admit of being altered with the same ease as opinions to what is permissible or not, under a contract, mortgage, or bill of exchange.”
“As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and no explanation if he can help it.”

Source : 'The Age of Illusion' (1963) ch. 12
“You can cage the songbird, but you can't make her sing. And you can trap the free bird, but you'll have to clip her wings.”

Source : Song: Cage The Songbird, Album: Blue Moves

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