"Just once" Blay said softly. "Do it just once. So I'll know what it's like."

-- J.R. Ward

#Said Quotes #Qhuinn And Blay Quotes

“The body learns through exaggeration and contrast”
“I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things.”
“There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about hearing the truth said. There is something so intimate about sharing the truth, even if you are not entirely sure what it means.”
“Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to it, and the more time passes, the harder it gets...My father said that the natural world gave us explanations to compensate for the meanings we could not grasp. The slant of the cold sunlight on a winter pine, the music of water, an oar cutting the lake and the flight of birds, the mountains' nobility , the silence of the silence. We are given life but must accept that it is unattainable and rejoice in what can be held in the eye, the memory, the mind.”
“The twin guardian angels whose eyes and hands and wings had focused protective attention on the souls that lay there no longer faced each other. They stared blindly into a random middle distance. The scroll they held between them proclaiming eternal resurrection was broken in two.”
“After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.”
“Our lives are not totally random. We make commitments, we cause things to happen.”

Source : Wendy Wasserstein (1991). “Bachelor Girls”, Vintage
“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

Source : David Starr Jordan (1929). “The Trend of the American University”, p.71, Stanford University Press

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