“Each person shines with his or her own light. No two flames are alike. There are big flames and little flames, flames of every color. Some people’s flames are so still they don’t even flicker in the wind, while others have wild flames that fill the air with sparks. Some foolish flames neither burn nor shed light, but others blaze with life so fiercely that you can’t look at them without blinking, and if you approach you shine in the fire.” PeopleIfsLooksLittlesPersonsStillsTwoBigsLightFireAirColorWindApproachShiningFoolishFlamesSparksShedFlicker Author:Eduardo Galeano
“Cats have a sort of game they play when they meet. A player alternates between watching the strange cat and ignoring her, grooming or examining everything around herself - a dead leaf, a cloud - with complete absorption. It is almost accidental how the two cats approach, a sidelong step and then the sitting again. This often ends in a flurry of spitting and slashing claws, too fast to see clearly, and then one or the other (or both) of the cats leap out of range. The game can have one exchange or many - and is not so different from the first meetings of women.” FirstsTwoDifferentEndsPlayGamesStepsPlayerStrangeApproachSittingCatMeetingsCloudsRangeLeapLeafsExaminingClawsAbsorptionGrooming Author:Kij Johnson
“The mist starts to form as we stand close to one another. It is a distant fog that rises from the horizon, and I find that I grow fearful as it approaches. It slowly creeps in, enveloping the world around us, fencing us in as if to prevent escape. Like a rolling cloud, it blankets everything, closing, until there is nothing left but the two of us.” IfsWorldTwoFormLeftGrowsApproachCloudsHorizonFearfulRollingFogClosingMistBlanketCreepsTwo Of UsFencing Author:Nicholas Sparks
“It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach, to fully reject it a generation later, to realize the need for it again a generation or two after that and then hastily reinvent it as new, usually without its original elegance. Scientists hated to look backward for anything.” NeedsHumansLooksTwoRealizingPracticeGenerationsApproachWorshipScientistOriginalsRhythmHatedEnterpriseRejectsEleganceNew Approach Book:My Name Is Memory Source: My Name Is Memory
“The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality.” KnowsTwoRealitySufferingApproachExpectedLive LifeSevereNegationTwo Lives Book:Villette Source: Villette