"The vestibule door opens onto a June morning so fine and scrubbed Classira pauses at the threshold as she would at the edge of a pool, watching the turquoise water lapping at the tiles, the liquid nets of sun wavering in the blue depths. As if standing at the edge of a pool she delays for a moment the plunge, the quick membrane of chill, the plain shock of immersion."

-- Michael Cunningham

#Morning Quotes #Blue Quotes #Doors Quotes

“In History, stagnant waters, whether they be the stagnant waters of custom or those of despotism, harbour no life; life is dependent on the ripples created by a few eccentric individuals. In homage to that life & vitality, the community has to brave certain perils and must countenance a measure of heresy. One must live dangerously if one wants to live at all.”
“It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now â€“ this day â€“ this hour.”
“No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.”
“Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.”
“It's not fun to keep secrets, but sometimes you have to do it to protect yourself. And to protect people around you. - Meredith, p112”
“People on a mission are unstoppable. God bless them for it. It would be a poorer, more miserable world without them.”

Source : "Beats Back Bigger Than Ever: An Interview With Gerald Nicosia". Interview with Jonah Raskin, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”
“Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States cannot make it without Texas”

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