"TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd."

-- Patrick Ness

#Pain Quotes #Names Quotes #Arms Quotes

“If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings.”

Source : Muhammad Asad (1954). “The Road To Mecca”, p.57, The Book Foundation
“Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.”
“The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.”
“[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in.”

Source : "Charles James Fox" by L. G. Mitchell, London: Penguin, (p. 167), 1997.
“Your smile lights my way through life, and keeps me warm inside. It reminds me that people are good, especially when their snide.”
“It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down”
“I'm going to win it for my country. I'm the first Aboriginal to win this. Isn't that something? I wish my Dad was alive to see it. He'd be as proud as I am.”
“I grow ominously tired of official confinement. Thirty years have I served the Philistines, and my neck is not subdued to the yoke. You don't know how wearisome it is to breathe the air of four pent walls without relief day after day, all the golden hours of the day between ten and four without ease or interposition ... these pestilential clerk-faces always in one's dish. O for a few years between the grave and the desk!”

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