"After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue."

-- Susanna Clarke

#Rain Quotes #Sight Quotes #Blue Quotes

“The word 'silly' derives from the Greek 'selig' meaning 'blessed.' There is something sacred in being able to be silly.”
“Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.”
“Here is a new spiritual practice for you: don't take your thoughts too seriously.”
“(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)”
“By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which has passed by his family and function in the real world without doing violence to the hopes his mother held out for him. But those who cannot live within this pattern are the freaks and poets, and they travel a different road to peace.”

Source : Murray Kempton (2012). “Part of Our Time: Some Ruins and Monuments of the Thirties”, p.14, New York Review of Books
“I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.”
“Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.”
“You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.”

Source : "Heather Locklear: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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