"Some things never leave a person: scent of the hair of one you love, the texture of persimmons, in your palm, the ripe weight."

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Source : Li-Young Lee (1986). “Rose: Poems”, p.19, BOA Editions, Ltd.

Li-Young Lee

#Hair Quotes #Texture Quotes #Weight Quotes

“Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.”
“The best part about burning your candle at both ends is that everything is much brighter in the middle.”
“I've got two families.”
“Go to bed," he ordered. "Go to bed... and stay there.”
“I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four...”
“It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.”
“Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2008). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.116, Oxford University Press
“I still find it strange, I suppose, when I say to someone, 'Can you just pass me my leg?' But I don't ever think about my disability.”

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