"all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction"

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Source : Kate Constable (2011). “The Chanters of Tremaris Trilogy bundle: fantasy adventure magic series The Singer of All Songs; The Waterless Sea; The Tenth Power”, p.18, Allen & Unwin

Kate Constable

#Light Quotes #Jewels Quotes #Different Quotes

“I love working with kids; I find hope in them.”
“Half of all home accidents happen in the kitchen, and the family has to eat them.”
“But the grind has begun. The windows donâ€™t open, and even the availability of near-constant jokes about Jews and Mormons fails to stem the tide of frustration, decay. Weâ€™ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something implying routine, or doing something because people expect us to do it, going somewhere each day because we went there the day before, saying things because we have said them before, and this seems like the work of a different sort of animal, contrary to our plan, and this is very very bad.”
“The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.”
“Why are you more concerned with where you're going than where you are? Why are you more concerned with what you're going to do than what you're doing? Why aren't you paying attention to how you live your life right this very moment? Why are you wasting this moment? Why are you wasting your life?”

Source : Colin Beavan (2009). “No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process”, p.45, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.”
“If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.”
“In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.”

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