"I sit where the leaves of the maple and the gnarled and knotted gum are circling and drifting around me."

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Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1850). “Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey ...”, p.140

Alice Cary

#Gum Quotes #Drifting Quotes

“An hour and seven minutes after walking up. I stood with Noelle outside the Trust's house and prepared to raise my first -- and hopefully only -- demon. Three minutes after that I looked at my demon and burst into laughter. "What?" the demon asked, turning its head 360 degrees to examine itself "What's so Funny?" "Why is the Summoner laughing and crying at the same time? I don't see what's so funny. I'm a demon; where's my respect? Where's the fear and cowering before me?”
“When someone speaks we ought to get three things out of the message. First and least important (but still very important), we ought to get what is said. Second, and more important, we ought to have a spiritual experience. Third, and most important, we should keep the commitments we make to ourselves.”

Source : Paraphrased in "Food Storage" by Vaughn J. Featherstone, www.lds.org. April 1976.
“When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.”
“If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.”
“I foresee a great funeral contest over me.”
“I'd like 'Morning News' to become a great first edition electronic newspaper, so that the 'New York Times' will want to watch us.”
“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.”

Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977
“The devil never gave a gift for free.”

Source : Tananarive Due (2008). “Blood Colony: A Novel”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

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