“Winter is not here yet. There’s a little flower, up yonder, the last bud from the multitude of bluebells that clouded those turf steps in July with a lilac mist. Will you clamber up and pluck it to show papa?”
“If I were you, I'd go stretch myself over her grave and die like a faithful dog.”
Source: Wuthering Heights
“They have left the first stage of romance—the rhapsody of us. Where everything is you-me or me-you or a giddily tentative we. Now him and her are asserting themselves, each given a private, pensive depth. Within the rhapsody of us, Elijah could think, I don’t really know you, but I will. Now he is not so sure.”
Source: Are We There Yet?
“Ruby describes the decorations at the banquet. 'It was like little gardens of rhapsody on every table. It was divine.”
Source: The Art of Arranging Flowers
“This is the fiction that I’m referring to as rhapsody, this stitching of mimetic representation, oneiric imagery, ludic rules, allegoric morals, satiric critique and diegetic story into complex quiltings of narrative.”
Source: Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions
“Every dream has a deadline.
Then a good dreamer must ignore the deadline.”
“Creative writing performs many functions. To the readers, it enlightens, enriches, entertains and informs. To the writer, creative writing is rhapsodic.”
Source: Learn Creative Writing: A guide to writing perfect drafts
“You don't need the technical understanding to make the moral judgments.”
Source: Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations: The Limits of Science in Understanding Who We Are
“Happiness is a state of mind, a choice, a way of living; it is not something to be achieved, it is something to be experienced.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We are not what you think we are from looking at T.V. We are real. We laugh, we cry. We are serious. We have a sense of humor. You don't have to be afraid of us. We don't want to convert you. And please don't try to convert us. Just give us the same right we give you--to live in peace. We are much more similar to you than you think.”