"If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house. It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you. It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note."

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Source : Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.8, HMH

Jon McGregor

#Song Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Night Quotes

“I felt like the track came to us, but then it went beyond us.”
“Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.”

Source : Luce Irigaray (2008). “Sharing the world”, Continuum Intl Pub Group
“Our thought is our big enemy, guided by ego that walks on evil path”
“The hope of the world lies in what one demands, not of others, but of oneself.”
“Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.”

Source : Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.183, Random House
“Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day.”
“There is no peace in the world until you find peace within yourself in this moment.”
“Freedom and ***** are the most cosmopolitan items under the sun.”

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