88 ratings (3.64 avg)
0 reviews

Dave Panton

Add friend

Dave’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (18)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (89)

Stats | More…

Dave’s Quotes

“I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.”
― Anchee Min, Empress Orchid

17 likes

“my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.”
― anchee min

tags: quote-from-empress-orchid

35 likes

“[The waves] move across a faint horizon, the rush of love and the surge of grief, the respite of peace and then fear again, the heart that beats and then lies still, the rise and fall and rise and fall of all of it, the incoming and the outgoing, the infinite procession of life. And the ocean wraps the earth, a reminder. The mysteries come forward in waves.”
― Susan Casey, The Wave: In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean

tags: life, ocean, waves

46 likes