Life and death- what paltry words, what tarnished bookends,what unjust summation for drawing breath one moment and failing to release it the next.
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.
Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.
Didn’t being out in the storm scare you?” “Try a couple of high-summer prairie storms in a trailer,” she mused. “That either makes you terrified of them or indifferent to them.
When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.
To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.
Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it.
Of course, you were crowned with laurel in the beginning, your gold hair was wreathed with laurel, but the gold is thinning and the laurel has withered. Face it – pitiful monster.
Birds chirped and hawked in the distance. A group of them, maybe vultures, circled the sky. Rae glanced at the blanket. Those damn birds could probably smell Marissa, and the second everyone left, they'd pounce on her.
If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you I would let you know.
His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.
From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was to find a way to coexist with intense pain.
They say a name expresses the thing it stands for, but I wonder if it isn't the other way around—the thing gets more and more like its name.
I feel as if the world is listening for my next thought. But I can't think of anything. Sorry, but I just can't think of anything.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
the unexpected action of deep listening can create a space of transformation capable of shattering complacency and despair.
Myths have a way of bringing what is unconscious to the surface and putting a face on what we cannot see.
I learned my color in Europe. I've always been a colorist, I think. I started when I was very young, being a bird-watcher, fascinated by the bird colors.
Dinosaurs are built just like birds - they can squat down, they can get up. Mammals, when we lay down, we throw our legs out to the sides - birds cannot do that. Dinosaurs could not do that either.
Gordon Cooper: You boys know what makes this bird go up? FUNDING makes this bird go up. Gus Grissom: He's right. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
