"She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the blood. Sometimes a whole minute would pass in nameless dread - the bedside clock ticking, the blue moonlight coating the window like glue - before she`d remember the brutal fact that had caused it."

-- Jeffrey Eugenides

#Grief Quotes #Night Quotes #Blue Quotes

“People are always misquoting me.”
“If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.”

Source : Andrew V. Mason (2002). “And Or Love”, p.46, Trafford Publishing
“When you sit quietly and let go of every false self-definition , of everything you think you know about who you are, and then be what's left, what remains is the untarnished presence of who you've always been and still really are.”

Source : Erich Schiffmann (2013). “Yoga The Spirit And Practice Of Moving Into Stilln”, p.13, Simon and Schuster
“I felt like I could be a good example that you don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things. In fact, I truly believe that a lot of people who do great things, many of them have come from harder backgrounds.”
“Welbeck is not the standard required at Manchester United.”
“You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.”

Source : Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.
“This is a low flying person”
“No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.”

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