"I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. This and this and this! I taught him how to skip stones, and he taught me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin."

Source : Madeline Miller (2011). “The Song of Achilles”, p.47, Bloomsbury Publishing

Madeline Miller

#Hurt Quotes #Air Quotes #Worry Quotes

“There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.”

Source : The Medical Career and Other Papers 'Medicine at the
“I have a band called Sons of the Lawless.”
“The point, do whatever it take to approach the Word with a fresh perspective.”
“Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person or a way of life, tell your story. Risk freeing someone else. Not everyone will be glad that you did. Members of your family and other critics may wish you had kept your secrets. Oh, well, what are you going to do?”
“No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.”

Source : George Lewis Prentiss, Elizabeth Prentiss (1987). “The life and letters of Elizabeth Prentiss”
“Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.”

Source : "The Life of the Creative Spirit". Book by H. Charles Romesburg, 2001.
“If your skin is crawling, pay attention. If something doesnâ€™t feel right, pay attention. If the hairs on the back of your neck prickle, if your gut clenches up, if a wave of wrongness washes over you, if your heart starts beating faster, pay, pay, pay attention. Do not second-guess yourself or rationalize anything that impedes your safety. Our instincts are the animal inside of our humanness, warning us of danger.”
“We can be exposed to HIV many times without being chronically infected. Our immune system will get rid of the virus within a few weeks, if you have a good immune system.”

Source : Interview with Kit Melamed, maisonneuve.org. 2004.

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