“When I'm about to blow the candles on my birthday cake and everybody is telling me I must make a wish, I just go into a tailspin. I'm thinking: what do I wish?, and I just can't seem to think about anything. Then I close my eyes, take a deep breath and there comes my wish. I don't know how to explain what goes on inside of me, but that's what happens: breathing is the key to understand what's really important to me.” ThinkingKnowsImportantSeemsHappensEyeWishKnow HowKeysGoes OnBreathsBlowBreathingCakeCandleDeep BreathMy BirthdayMy WishTake A Deep BreathBirthday CakeMake A Wish Author:Kristen Stewart
“There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath.” WorldLightEyeBeautifulFacesDarkSummerBreathsWarmCandlePeachesDark Eyes Author:Ray Bradbury
“Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of course, first stars and shooting stars. Planes will do if they are the first light in the sky and look like stars. Wish in tunnels, holding your breath and lifting your feet off the ground. Birthday candles. Baby teeth.” IfsFirstsLooksLightCoursesWishStarsAttitudeFeetSkyCarBabyBreathsTeethShootingPlanesCandleLiftingTunnelsShooting StarFeet Off The GroundBaby Teeth Author:Francesca Lia Block
“Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves; just as in the experiment, we need oxygen and a candle to help. In this case, the oxygen, for example, would come from the breath of the person you love; the candle could be any kind of food, music, caress, word, or sound that engenders the explosion that lights one of the matches.” NeedsKindPersonsHelpingLightSoundBornCasesExampleBreathsBoxesStrikesExperimentsCandleOxygenExplosionsCaress Author:Laura Esquivel
“I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark. A flickering candle burns on the window ledge a few feet away. I take a deep breath, which is to say, as deep a breath as I can take. "Are you okay?" Sarah asks. I wrap my arms around her. "I miss you," I say. "You miss me? But I'm right here." "That's the worst way to miss somebody. When they' re right beside you and you miss them anyway.” WayI CanTwoNextAsksDarkRoomsKnowingFeetWorstMissingArmsWindowOkayBreathsUncertaintyCandleNot KnowingNext DayWrapsMissing SomeoneDeep BreathTake A Deep BreathBeside YouLedgesMiss MeYou Miss Me Author:Pittacus Lore
“Even this late it happens the coming of love, the coming of light. You wake and the candles are lit as if by themselves, stars gather, dreams pour into your pillows, sending up warm bouquets of air. Even this late the bones of the body shine and tomorrow’s dust flares into breath.” IfsDreamBodyLightHappensStarsAirTomorrowLateBreathsShiningWarmBonesDustCandleLitPillowBouquetsFlare Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of the mulligrubs, or the sullens.” MenPlayWholeBodyDeathDiesPrayerDyingBreathsRapWhole LifeTricksKicksGutsCandleMemorialSneakSnuff Book:Don Quixote Source: Don Quixote