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“All the disappointments, broken dreams and deep dark experiences will soon be forgotten and blotted out like a bad dream, when that glorious dawn of Heaven arrives!”

Dream Heaven Dark Broken Forgotten Disappointment Dawn Glorious Heavenly Broken Dreams Bad Dream Deep Dark

Author:David Berg

“On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever.”

World Firsts Wells Forever Fire Blood Changed Broken Forgotten Ancient Nine Symbols Knees Dragons Towers Prophecy Bent Banner Reborn

Author:Robert Jordan

“[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.”

Littles Made Whole Girl House Forget Rooms Break Duty Broken Forgotten Spills Maidens

Book:The Mists of Avalon

Source: The Mists of Avalon

“In this moment she felt that she had been robbed of an enormous number of valuable things, whether material or intangible: things lost or broken by her own fault, things she had forgotten and left in houses when she moved: books borrowed from her and not returned, journeys she had planned and had not made, words she had waited to hear spoken to her and had not heard, and the words she meant to answer with. . . .”

Source: Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic

“In this state of total consumerism-which is to say a state of helpless dependence on things and services and ideas and motives that we have forgotten how to provide ourselves-all meaningful contact between ourselves and the earth is broken. We do not understand the earth in terms either of what it offers us or of what it requires of us, and I think it is the rule that people inevitably destroy what they do not understand.”

People Thinking Ideas States Earth Term Broken Offers Forgotten Meaningful Contact Motive Consumerism Helpless Dependence Overconsumption

Book:The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

Source: The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry

“I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.”

Death Certain Fall Prayer Forget Broken Forgotten Deeds Funeral Remembrance Memorial Eulogy Slumber Grieving A Death Death And Grieving Death Remembrance

Book:Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited

Source: Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited

“We laughed about all the kids who believed in the Santa Clause myth and got nothing but a bunch of cheap plastic toys. 'Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten,' Dad said, ' you'll still have your stars.”

Years Long Said Stills Kids Stars Broken Dad Forgotten Myth Bunch Laughed Plastic Toys Santa Junk Clauses Santa Clause

Author:Jeannette Walls

“Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.”

Years Long Stills Stars Broken Forgotten Junk

Book:The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir

“He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.”

Feelings Saws Pieces Happened Broken Forgotten Giants Blank

Book:Wise Blood: A Novel

Source: Wise Blood: A Novel

“Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.”

Heart Moments Problem Broken Travel England Forgotten Flight Planes Seats Meaningless Lit Belts Precedence Airborne Seat Belts

Book:The Beach

Source: The Beach