"Most people never listen."

-- Ernest Hemingway

“Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.”

Source : Oliver Lodge (2012). “Past Years: An Autobiography”, p.306, Cambridge University Press
“Certainly survival is important- very important- but at some point surviving wasn't enough. I felt ready to complete my surviving journey and start thriving and just living.”
“Do you want to suck face or not?â€ â€œSuck face?â€ His head fell back and he laughed, his chest vibrating against me. It was a lusty, full-bodied sound and my toes curled at hearing it. Gideon laughed so rarely. My hands slid under his sweater and glided over that warm skin. My lips moved over his jaw. â€œIs that a no?â€ â€œAngel, Iâ€™ll suck on any part of your body I can get my mouth on.”
“We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.”

Source : "No More Clever Wordplay on Torture" by Rep. Jerrold Nadler, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 15, 2007.
“What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.”

Source : thomas bailey aldrich (1875). “cloth of gold and other poems”, p.126
“Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.”
“I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Hanael, the Angel of December, will help us enjoy the balance of giving and receiving in many different ways: working and relaxing, giving our support to others and allowing ourselves to receive it in our own lives, having run with friends and having a quiet time alone to replenish our energy.”

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