"She was the breeze on a summer's day, the first drops of rain when the earth was parched, light from the evening star."

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Kate Morton

#Summer Quotes #Stars Quotes #Rain Quotes

“I used to work in kitchens, doing 12 or more hours a day of physical labor, so today, eight to 12 hours of cooking, chatting or filming feels like a vacation. When I have a scheduled 'day off,' I spend several hours writing, then I clean until I crash from fatigue. I don't relax well.”
“I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.”
“Identity is part of drama to me. Who am I, why am I behaving this way, and am I aware of it?”
“It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.”

Source : "The Singer of 'Love Shack' Is Back With an Upbeat Solo Album". Interview with Luke Whelan, www.motherjones.com. February 16, 2015.
“My grandmother told a story that when they used to leave from Southampton to go into the City, because he had apartment buildings in Queens - I was born in Astoria, Queens - they had apartment buildings in Queens and Manhattan, different businesses, and she wanted to pick blueberries on the side of the road and he wouldn't stop, so my grandma used to throw her purse out the window. She never had less than $4,000 cash, back in the 20s, and he would then stop the car and she would pick blueberries. And, he never had a record.”
“What I do is more than just the clothes. It's getting out whatever is inside that's screaming the loudest. I wouldn't call it therapeutic. It's not that conscious.”
“I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.”
“It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.”

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