"When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat."

-- Oswald Boelcke

#Enemy Quotes #Lines Quotes #Retreat Quotes

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.25, Scholastic Inc.
“There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.”
“Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild. Because after disaster strikes, the important thing is that you move on. But if you're like me, you just keep chasing the storm.”

Source : Rob Thomas (2007). “Neptune Noir: Unauthorized Investigations into Veronica Mars”, p.46, BenBella Books, Inc.
“Some books accrete things to themselves like a magnet. The writer risks sterility by subjecting the mysterious power of imagination to the devices of mere comprehension.”

Source : 1979 Preface to reprint of The Horn.
“blessing the boats (at saint maryâ€™s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that”

Source : Lucille Clifton (1991). “Quilting: poems, 1987-1990”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.”
“So as long as you can forget your body you are happy and the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So if civilization is any good, it has to help us forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it. Help us get rid of our bodies altogether.”
“It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.”

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