“The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating.” PersonsLongKnownMetsTravelCuriosityCastsFascinatedJewelsBeamEmbedded Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.” IfsWorldLittlesLongStillsHardStoriesLanguageLonelyWrapsSyllables Book:I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven Source: I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven
“I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket. Sometimes I'm the slush that sticks to the bottom of your work pants, but I can easily be the melting snowflakes clinging to your long lashes. I know that some people like: sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, sunny and seventy-five, but you take me as I am and never forget to pack an umbrella.” PeopleKnowsNeedsLongI CanSometimesLightMightForgetFiveLowsRainSticksBottomCloudsWeatherNever ForgetTake MePantsPacksSeventiesJacketsSunnyMeltingClingingUmbrellaLashesSnowflakeSlushTake Me As I AmRain CloudsLong Lashes Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“Today you will say things you can predict and other things you could never imagine this minute. Don't reject them, let them come through when they're ready, don't think you can plan it al out. This day will never, no matter how long you live, happen again. It is exquisitely singular. It will never again be exactly repeated.” ThinkingLongMatterHappensTodayImaginePlansMinutesReadyRejectsThis DayAls Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
