"Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking."

-- Robert Charles Wilson

#Moving Quotes #Talking Quotes #Wind Quotes

“The practice is enlightenment. Some people find this idea not to their liking. They want to get enlightenment in a flash. This way they become attached to something that doesn't exist. Enlightenment isn't a thing you get.”
“The days are too short even for love; how can there be enough time for quarreling?”
“Every day thousands of people bury good ideas because they are afraid to act on them.And afterwards, the ghosts of these ideas come back to haunt them.”
“The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.”
“If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.”

Source : Nelson A. Miles (1992). “Personal Recollections and Observations of General Nelson A. Miles, Embracing a Brief View of the Civil War, Or, From New England to the Golden Gate and the Story of His Indian Campaigns with Comments on the Exploration, Development, and Progress of Our Great Western Empire”, p.339, U of Nebraska Press
“My mother believed in all superstitions, plus she made some up.”
“I was lucky to have been born with cheekbones.”
“For me, being Catholic was who I was and who I am, just like I'm Irish and Slovak. It's just so ingrained in us.”

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