"Home. When it rains, you can smell the leaves in the forest and the sand. It's all so small and mild, the landscape surrounding the lake, so manageable. The leaves and the sand are so close, it's as if you might, if you wanted, pull them on over your head. And the lake always laps at the shore so gently, licking the hand you dip into it like a young dog, and the water is soft and shallow."

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Source : Jenny Erpenbeck (2011). “Visitation”, p.34, Granta Books

Jenny Erpenbeck

#Dog Quotes #Rain Quotes #Home Quotes

“A day may sink or save a realm.”
“We are making tremendous progress that ISIS really does present to the homeland and to other homelands of allies around the world.”

Source : Source: www.cbsnews.com
“All American and Israeli goods and products should be boycotted in a way that undermines American and Israeli interests so as to act as deterrence to their war against Muslims and Islam that is being waged under the pretense of fighting terrorism. This boycott should become an overwhelming trend that makes these two states feel that their economies are in a real and actual danger.”

Source : "Boycott of Israeli and US companies gaining momentum" by Shatha Khalil and Abdul Adil, archive.muslimnews.co.uk. June 28, 2002.
“I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.”
“For try as one may to expel nature with a hayfork, it will always come back.”

Source : Leo Strauss (1959). “What is Political Philosophy? And Other Studies”, p.124, University of Chicago Press
“Living in Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in now.”
“My life is an apology for the life of my father.”
“The spirit of social computing is the concept of leaving value in your wake.”

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