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“The language lifted up my heart whenever I read it, and as I spoke it, it possessed me, it sang through me. When I ended, I heard for the first time in my life that silence which is the performer's sweetest reward.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Gifts

tags: oral-history, oration, silences-speak-more-than-words, the-value-of-story

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“The glow in the grey sky that was all we could see of the sun began to shift downwards, silvering the sedge and marsh grasses at the sand's rim, and casting faint, shape-changing shadows across the ground we crossed.”
― Emma Darwin, A Secret Alchemy

tags: day-and-night, journeys, sunsets

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“both heartened and chastened by contact with open and fearless goodwill.”
― Ellis Peters, Monk's Hood

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“The word, Irene, is stealing."

"Oh, semantics. 'I acquire, 'you borrow,' 'she steals,' 'they invade and loot . . .”
― Genevieve Cogman, The Secret Chapter

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“No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence.”
― Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man

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