"The world tilted slightly sideways. 'I think I need to sit down.' The floor seemed like the best option. It was close and he'd already proved that he could hit it. His legs folded."

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Source : Tanya Huff (2005). “Smoke and Shadows”, p.152, Penguin

Tanya Huff

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“The statement of ideas in a poem may have to do with logic . More profoundly, it may be identified with the emotional progression of the poem, in terms of the music and images, so that the poem is alive throughout. Another, more fundamental statement in poetry, is made through the images themselves those declarations, evocative, exact, and musical, which move through time and are the actions of a poem.”

Source : "The Life of Poetry". Book by Muriel Rukeyser, p. 31, 1949.
“Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of KNOWING Jesus Christ personally and directly. When the religious views of others interpose between us and the primary experience of Jesus as the Christ, we become unconvicted and unpersuasive travel agents handing out brochures to places we have never visited.”
“If the constitution goes, I go.”

Source : Interview conducted in 2001, broadcast on Fijian television, April 29, 2004.
“[On Elizabeth Barrett Browning:] ... for finish, and melody of versification, there is nothing approaching to Miss Barrett in this day, or in any other - also for diction. Her words paint.”
“How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We are simply going back to a vintage form of worship which has been around for as long as the church has been in existence.”

Source : Dan Kimball (2009). “The Emerging Church”, p.169, Harper Collins
“Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his life: and carve immortal jungles of despair to hold a mountain's heartbeat in his hand.”
“All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.”

Source : "Interview with Lauren Greenfield, Director of Queen of Versailles". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2012.
“I have great faith in the people of Montana; they can't be bought.”

Source : "Sen. Jon Tester Decries Citizens United's Impact In Montana, Nationally". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. January 30, 2012.

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