"When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before."

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Source : Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.59, Penguin

Jandy Nelson

#Lonely Quotes #Grief Quotes #Wind Quotes

“Creation science has not entered the curriculum for a reason so simple and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and because good teachers understand why it is false. What could be more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our entire intellectual heritage-good teaching-than a bill forcing our honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any general understanding of science as an enterprise?.”
“In Eastern lands they talk in flowers, And they tell in a garland their loves and cares; Each blossom that blooms in their garden bowers, On its leaves a mystic language bears.”

Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1859). “The poetical works of James Gates Percival”, p.361
“I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.”
“Literally since I could walk... I was performing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.”
“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.”

Source : Anthony Burgess (1986). “Homage to QWERT YUIOP: essays”, Vintage
“Women were always complications, bless their perverse little hearts.”

Source : Linda Howard (2010). “Veil of Night: A Novel”, p.21, Ballantine Books
“Hey, I can cook." "How do you know? You haven't eaten anything since before the Norman Conquest." "I've never had any complaints." "Given the infants you date, I'm not surprised. You could serve them sawdust and they'd eat it with a smile, dazzled by the swing of your broadsword." "What do you know about the swing of my broadsword?" "More than I care to. Women talk." Which shut him up, as he started wondering who'd said what.”

Source : Angela Knight (2011). “Master of Shadows”, p.67, Penguin

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