For people accustomed to physical activity every day, going without for so long could feel like ripping an addict off a drug. Disoriented, restless.
“Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Cosmos
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
― Cosmos
“I hear the first drops. Like the tapping of a stranger at the door of a dream, the rain changes everything.”
― Out of the Dust
― Out of the Dust
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