"Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice. That's how we met, with Finnick offering me sugar. Surrounded by horses and chariots, costumed and painted for the crowds, before we were allies. Before I had any idea what made him tick. The memory actually coaxes a smile out of me. "Here, it improves the taste," he says in his real voice, plunking three cubes into my cup."

-- Suzanne Collins

#Horse Quotes #Memories Quotes #Real Quotes

“Acrid bitterness inevitably seeps into the lives of people who harbor grudges and suppress anger, and bitterness is always a poison.Â It keeps your pain alive instead of letting you deal with it and get beyond it.Â Bitterness sentences you to relive the hurt over and over.”
“I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.”
“I've been readen th Bible an a hunten God fer a long while-off an on- but it ain't so easy as picken up a nickel off the floor.”
“I thought I was growing wingsâ€” it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fireâ€” it was deep water. Eschatology is a word I learned as a child: the study of Last Things; facing my mirrorâ€”no longer young, the newsâ€”always of death, the dogsâ€”rising from sleep and clamoring and howling, howling.... ("Seeing For a Moment")”
“Water the root to enjoy the fruit.”
“In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.”
“There's always the possibility that you're going to come across a record that transforms your life. And it happens weekly. It's like a leaf on the stream. There are little currents and eddies and sticks lying in the water that nudge you in a slightly different direction. And then you break loose and carry on down the current. There's nothing that actually stops you and lifts you out of the water and puts you on the bank but there are diversions and distractions and alarums and excursions which is what makes life interesting really. It's fantastic.”
“It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.”

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