"Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branchâ€”they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruitâ€”death-ripened. We shall all end like themâ€”just a stain in the snow."

-- Lawrence Durrell

#Fall Quotes #Snow Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns”
“Aspirations pure and high Strength to do and to endure Heir of all the Ages, I Lo! I am no longer poor!”

Source : Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1892). “Poems”
“Even if there's controversy, I'm going to make the decision, and people are going to be happy in one instance and unhappy in the next. But that's the job I've been given and the job I'm going to embrace.”
“Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing.”
“Such sorrow— The cry of true compassion Sinks into my hard ego.”
“Trust me, I'm going to find out where the money has gone and how it has been spent, and see if we can't get it down there quicker to let that rebuilding start.”
“In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.”

Source : Loung Ung (2012). “First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers”, Random House
“I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.”

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