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“Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.”

Passion Acceptance Broken Lays

Book:The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

Source: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

“Always the idea of unbroken quiet broods around the grave. It is a port where the storms of life never beat, and the forms that have been tossed on its chafing waves lie quiet forevermore. There the child nestles as peacefully as ever it lay in its mother's arms, and the workman's hands lie still by his side, and the thinker's brain is pillowed in silent mystery, and the poor girl's broken heart is steeped in a balm that extracts its secret woe, and is in the keeping of a charity that covers all blame.”

“An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity!”

Men Giving Littles States Age Earth Dying Broken Lays Charity Bones Storm Old Age Old Man Weary Resignation Burial

Author:William Shakespeare

“The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”

World Life Firsts Might Lost Ability Magic Broken Lays Broken World

Book:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (with bonus content): A Novel

“The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.”

World Firsts Made Might Lost Bits Ability Fire Magic Broken Promise Paper Illusion Lays Rose Dust Ashes Torn Magician Handful Consumed Dove Reunited Broken World

Author:Michael Chabon

“Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.”

People Broken Claims Lays Accidents

Book:Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon

Source: Dawn of the Dragons: Here, There Be Dragons; The Search for the Red Dragon

“I lay there, stretched out, looking at the one star visible through the tiny window of the room. Only connect. How can you do that when the connections are broken?”

Stars Rooms Broken Window Connections Lays Tiny Visible

Book:Lighthousekeeping

Source: Lighthousekeeping

“Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his skin with razors and broken glass. Oskan wanted to scream, but his vocal cords had burned away. He was desperate for water and he could hear it dripping all around him, but his charred tongue found nothing in his mouth but blisters and scorched flesh. For hours he lay on the ropes of the low bed, unable to move, the pressure of the hemp on his destroyed skin sending new agonies deep into his body.”

Source: The Icemark Chronicles #1: Cry of the Icemark

“THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea”

Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats

“When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?”

World Hard Joy Grows Grace Broken Rain Skins Lays Best Things Dry Soil Being The Best Penetrate Cracked Hard Life Crevice

Author:Ann Voskamp

“Drifting snowflakes brushed her face as light as lover’s kisses, and melted on her cheeks. At the center of the garden, beside the statue of the weeping woman that lay broken and half-buried on the ground, she turned her face up to the sky and closed her eyes. She could feel the snow on her lashes, taste it on her lips. It was the taste of Winterfell. The taste of innocence. The taste of dreams.”

Source: A Storm of Swords: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Three