"Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic. As one tends the graves of the dead, so I tend the books. And every day I open a volume or two, read a few lines or pages, allow the voices of the forgotten dead to resonate inside my head."

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Source : Diane Setterfield (2011). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.24, Hachette UK

Diane Setterfield

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“Until you have heard the whippoowill, either nearby or in the fain - distance, you have not experienced summer night.”
“The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads”
“Authenticity is an alignment between your beliefs, your desires and your choices in the world. Desires that are in alignment with core beliefs generate powerful actions. Like a wave that draws from the depths of the ocean, actions connected to your authentic self are more likely to manifest your intentions.”

Source : David Simon, M.D. (2010). “The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices”, p.33, Health Communications, Inc.
“More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers, restricts the body and soul within it. But it also protects. Blows are blunted. Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and, after a time, bruises fade.”

Source : Steven Erikson (2009). “Memories of Ice: (Malazan Book of the Fallen: Book 3)”, p.160, Random House
“You can achieve only that which you will do.”
“I feel like the health industry is getting nothing but stronger every day.”
“The name of the human who is written in this note shall die.”
“Love is a rock against the wind. Not soft like silk and lace.”

Source : Etheridge Knight (1980). “Born of a woman: new and selected poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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