“The world, with all its beauty and adventure, its richness and variety, is darkened by cruelty. Death, if it ends the loveliness, the adventure, ends also that. Death balances the picture.” IfsWorldEndsAdventureBalanceCrueltyVarietyRichnessLoveliness Book:South Riding Source: South Riding
“Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.” NeedsWritingKindBookAdventureBalanceInternalsChairsHawaiiFloatsSofasMartiniShakersRafting Author:Tom Robbins
“The adventure of our first days together gradually blossomed into something else: a feeling I'd never had, which I can only compare to the sensation of returning home, of joining a balance that needs no adjusting, as if the scales of my life had been waiting for her all along.” IfsNeedsFirstsI CanFeelingsHomeTogetherWaitingAdventureBalanceScalesCompareSensationsJoiningAdjustingReturning Home Book:The rule of four Source: The rule of four