"She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out from under furniture, only reaching the sky when the spaces near the ground were full."

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Source : Katherine Howe (2010). “The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane”, p.148, Penguin UK

Katherine Howe

#Fall Quotes #Space Quotes #Sky Quotes

“There are only two options regarding commitment; youâ€™re either in or youâ€™re out.”
“I think this is how we are supposed to be in the world-present and in awe.”
“I can't always reach the image in my mind... almost never, in fact... so that the abstract image I create is not quite there, but it gets to the point where I can leave it.”
“We can continue to make significant strides in the scientific community by exploring new stem cell research methods that do not include destroying human embryos.”
“...I cannot help being astonished at the furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility of a fusion of the races draws down upon those who suggest it, because nobody pretends to deny that, throughout the South, a large proportion of the population is the offspring of white men and colored women.”

Source : Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.14
“When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.”
“Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck.”
“We Germans are so good at penalties because we have had to rebuild our country twice.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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