"Sometimes when you are standing still and itâ€™s snowing, you think that you hear music. You canâ€™t tell where itâ€™s coming from either. I wondered if we all really did have a soundtrack, but we just get so used to it that we canâ€™t hear it anymore, the same way that we block out the sound of our own heartbeat."

-- Heather O'Neill

#Block Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Snow Quotes

“When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.”

Source : Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.99, Penguin
“In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself.”
“It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.”
“It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing.”
“No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.”
“Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodiesâ€”those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!”
“Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced.... Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure.”
“What I do know is that Charlie Hebdo cartoonists have been converted into the closest thing the West has to religious-like martyrs in the war against radical Islam, which means that anything short of pure reverence for them generates tribal rage and vilification.”

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