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#1

“Three hours later, Cassandra limped into the quiet, empty conservatory. Soft ripples of light reflected from the indoor stream and jostled against shadows cast by ferns and palm fronds. It looked like the room of some underwater palace.
Painfully she made her way to the steps of a small stone bridge and sat in a billow of blue silk organza skirts. Tiny crystal beads had been scattered among the multiple layers of delicate fabric, casting glints across the floor.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Chasing Cassandra

tags: blue-dress, cassandra-ravenel, lights, magical-beauty, sparkles

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#2

“Every sword that pricked us ignited our loyalty for one another”
― Amina Mughal, A Piece of My Heart

tags: agra, amina-mughal, delhi, indian-history, loyalty-quotes, mughals, mughals-of-india, poetry-quotes, poets

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#3

“She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.”
― Monique Duval

tags: birds, dance, free, freedom, monique-duval, wind

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#4

“I felt after I finished Slaughterhouse-Five that I didn’t have to write at all anymore if I didn’t want to. It was the end of some sort of career. I don’t know why, exactly. I suppose that flowers, when they’re through blooming, have some sort of awareness of some purpose having been served. Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me. At the end of Slaughterhouse-Five…I had a shutting-off feeling…that I had done what I was supposed to do and everything was OK .”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

tags: author, awareness, bloom, book, books, complete, finished, flowers, slaughterhouse-five, writing

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#5

“Did you… Did you just kiss me?” He sounded puzzled, and maybe a little out of breath. His lips were full and plump and… God. Kissed. There was simply no way Olive could get away with denying what she had just done.
Still, it was worth a try.
“Nope.”
Surprisingly, it seemed to work.
“Ah. Okay, then.” Carlsen nodded and turned around, looking vaguely disoriented. He took a couple of steps down the hallway, reached the water fountain - maybe where he’d headed in the first place.
Olive was starting to believe that she might actually be off the hook when he halted and turned back with a skeptical expression.
“Are you sure?”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

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#6

“Ssh.” His arm slid around her waist, his hand coming to rest on her hip in a gesture that should have been unpleasant but just felt reassuring. His voice was low when he added, “It’s fine.” The words vibrated in her ear, rich and warm. “More material for my Title IX complaint.”
― Ali Hazelwood, The Love Hypothesis

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#7

“His gaze slid over me like a veil of fire. He could ignite my deepest desires with a single glance. I decided right then and there no more reading romance novels by candelight.”
― Darynda Jones, Second Grave on the Left

tags: humor, romance-novels

100 likes

#8

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

6752 likes

#9

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

tags: poetry

6198 likes

#10

“Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.”
― Robert Frost

tags: humor, poetry, religion

3238 likes

#11

“I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

tags: inspirational-attitude, joy, poetry

2112 likes

#12

“...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
― Vincent Willem van Gogh

tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide

3123 likes

#13

“Summer night--
even the stars
are whispering to each other.”
― Kobayashi Issa

tags: poetry

1687 likes

#14

“The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.”
― carl sandburg

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#15

“Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change.”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

tags: love, moon, romeo-nad-juliet

1337 likes

#16

“Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

tags: love, separation, sunset

1017 likes

#17

“HEARTWORK

Each day is born with a sunrise
and ends in a sunset, the same way we
open our eyes to see the light,
and close them to hear the dark.
You have no control over
how your story begins or ends.
But by now, you should know that
all things have an ending.
Every spark returns to darkness.
Every sound returns to silence.
And every flower returns to sleep
with the earth.
The journey of the sun
and moon is predictable.
But yours,
is your ultimate
ART.”
― Suzy Kassem

tags: dark, destiny-quotes, dreams, earth, life, life-journey, light, moon, poetry, sun, sunrise, sunset, suzy-kassem

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#18

“The sky, at sunset, looked like a carnivorous flower.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

tags: 129, sky, sunset

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#19

“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 3

tags: dusk, fiery, kiss, night-sky, sundowno, sunset, sunsets, word-junkies

178 likes

#20

“Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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#21

“Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper.”
― Adriaan Kortlandt

tags: animal, nature, sunset

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#22

“Tonight the sun has died like an Emperor ... great scarlet arcs of silk ... saffron ... green ... crimson ... and the blaze of Venus to remind one of the absolute and the infinite ... and along the lower rim of beauty lay the hard harsh line of the hills ...”
― John Coldstream, Ever, Dirk: The Bogarde Letters

tags: colours, description, imagery, natural-world, silk, sunset

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#23

“Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to rise again”
― Munia Khan

tags: again, along, death, disappear, down, life, life-quotes, live, live-in-the-moment, live-life, never, philosophy, philosophy-of-life, revel, rise, sink, sinking, sun, sunset, twilight, twilight-quote

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#24

“The pale stars were sliding into their places. The whispering of the leaves was almost hushed. All about them it was still and shadowy and sweet. It was that wonderful moment when, for lack of a visible horizon, the not yet darkened world seems infinitely greater—a moment when anything can happen, anything be believed in.”
― Olivia Howard Dunbar, The Shell of Sense

tags: dusk, evening, sunset

110 likes

#25

“One day,' you said, 'I watched the sunset forty-three times!'

And a little later you added:
'You know, when one is that sad, one can get to love the sunset.'

'Were you that sad, then, on the day of the forty-three sunset?'

But the prince made no answer.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: sunset

97 likes

#26

“Separation

Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.”
― W.S. Merwin

tags: influence, loneliness, loss, poetry

1713 likes

#27

“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her...”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: flowers, love, roses

959 likes

#28

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

tags: beautiful, flowers, midnight

801 likes

#29

“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?”
― Terry Johnson, Insignificance

tags: humor, misattributed-to-marilyn-monroe, philosophy

13817 likes