"Words carry oceans on their small backs."

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Source : Lidia Yuknavitch (2013). “The Chronology of Water: A Memoir”, p.176, Hawthorne Books

Lidia Yuknavitch

“My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.”
“I think architecture has to be a gift.”
“She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?”
“I am infected with life and will die of it in time.”

Source : Peter S Beagle (2007). “A Fine & Private Place”, p.271, Tachyon Publications
“The spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which can be pointed out by your finger.”
“For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.”
“The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede. What stands in your way is that you have a much too willful will. You think that what you do not do yourself does not happen.”
“You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.”

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