"Once I was lost in a forest. I was so afraid. My blood pounded in my chest and I knew my heart's strength would soon be exhausted. I saved myself without thinking. I grasped the two syllables closest to me, and replaced my heartbeat with your name."

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Source : Anne Michaels (2009). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.115, A&C Black

Anne Michaels

#Heart Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Blood Quotes

“With every glance I take in the 'negative-positive' of existence and the inevitability of impermanence to its glowing limits. Alone and haunted, I trust my inner eye, the heart. Everything, absolutely everything, becomes visible. Appearances, disappearances, nothing seems of secondary importance to me.”
“I love the place that I live, but I hate the people in charge.”

Source : Song: Freedom of Speech, 2003
“There's the generic 'be yourself', you'll learn it the hard way. You might just have to learn it that hard way... I think I probably kind of learned it the hard way.”
“As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light.”

Source : Song: God's Gonna Cut You Down, Album: American V: A Hundred Highways, 2006
“Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”

Source : Chuck Norris (2014). “The Official Chuck Norris Fact Book: 101 of Chuck's Favorite Facts and Stories”, p.102, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“Two birds fly past. They are needed somewhere.”
“Values linger on after the social structures which conceived them.”
“I believe that I'm going to have a long career, as long as I want, and I think by me going out into the world living a little bit made me... gave me more depth, so when I do go, going into movies is much easier for me.”

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