"She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets."

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Source : Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Susanna Clarke

#Regret Quotes #Rain Quotes #Color Quotes

“Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an expansion of yourself: they take your thoughts, your ideas, your emotions, and they multiply it.”
“Everything is up for grabs, everything is relative. Except nothing is if you are serious about it because the moment you become serious about answering a question you have a stake in it. Relatively goes out of the window, in one sense because you're putting your a** out there - you are depending on the answer, you need the answer.”

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“I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be.”
“An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.”
“Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.”
“I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry ...”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.142, Carcanet
“Group texts are the worst. They're like a terrible, technological snowball, coming down a mountain, and you can't stop it.”
“Doing meditation you may need to experiment to discover what kinds of thoughts are best for your own unique interests and situation. For you it might be a repetitive "mantra," or simply an open state of watching your breath, like in the Buddhist tradition.”

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