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It wasn’t a good idea to speak without putting a deal of thought into it. Words could be snares. Less of them you laid out there, less likely they could trap you
“An imperturbable demeanour comes from perfect patience. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.”
― An Inland Voyage
― An Inland Voyage
“To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.”
― The Eustace Diamonds
― The Eustace Diamonds
“She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.”
― Mama Day
― Mama Day
“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
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“When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.”
― Borderliners
― Borderliners
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