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“but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.”

Want Said Taken Tree Rain Remains Clouds Ugly Wounds Mud Ugly Things

Book:Embryoyo

Source: Embryoyo

“A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today”

“Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds.”

Should Looks Light Force Stars Sides Dark Sky Danger Ideals Clouds Brilliant Surround Nevertheless Threatened Dark Forces

Book:Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.”

Said Night Stars Clouds Riding One Night

Book:The Waves

Source: The Waves

“For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Feels Humans Problem Body Would Be Emotion Economy Cutting Clouds Judgement Educate Robots Highways Human Body Precedence

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.”

Ifs Whole Kindness Cutting Fine Ears Shining Clouds Edges Whole Life Heal Tone Poison Insult Injury Knives Tenderness Echoes Consolation Ravens Dripping Foreshadowing Villette Answering The Call

Book:Villette

Source: Villette

“The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.”

Wells Shows Sun Glory Rose Clouds Covered Simile

Book:Cabal

Source: Cabal

“The stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own.”

Stars Voice Nature Clouds Sheets

Book:Dream Work

Source: Dream Work

“And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.”

White Crazy New York Holy Clouds East Dust California Brown Throwing Continents Steam Gloomy Throwing Up

Author:Jack Kerouac

“You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?”

Ifs World Looks Bigs Eye Speak Sun Our Lives Missing Fronts Ears Clouds Careful Remarkable

Author:Jon McGregor

“Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.”

Source: 31 songs

“Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society — things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.”

Humans Looks Shows Change Dark Break Changed Expression Clouds Weather Sailor Human Society

Author:E. B. White

“I've lived to bury my desires and see my dreams corrode with rust now all that's left are fruitless fires that burn my empty heart to dust. Struck by the clouds of cruel fate My crown of Summer bloom is sere Alone and sad, I watch and wait And wonder if the end is near. As conquered by the last cold air When Winter whistles in the wind Alone upon a branch that's bare A trembling leaf is left behind.”

“Upon four-legged forest clouds the cowboy angel rides”

Four Angel Clouds Forests Cowboy

Author:Bob Dylan

“A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.”

Source: Fuel: Poems

“Mariam lay on the couch, hands tucked between her knees, watched the whirlpool of snow twisting and spinning outside the window. She remembered Nana saying once that each snowflake was a sigh heaved by an aggrieved woman somewhere in the world. That all the sighs drifted up the sky, gathered into clouds, then broke into tiny pieces that fell silently on the people below. As a reminder of how people like us suffer, she'd said. How quietly we endure all that falls upon us.”

Source: The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set

“Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.”

Source: Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America

“He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.”

World Way Book Hands Black Crazy Rain Patience Clouds Thieves Defeated Trust Me Liesel

Book:The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition

“People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves.”

People Ifs Thinking Looks Made Different Body Bigs Light Might Would Be Able Moving Sky Information Objects Planets Computer Reflection Bigger Clouds Dust Aliens Flats Metals Spaceships Slugs

Author:Mark Haddon

“Adam strokes my head, my face, he kisses my tears. We are blessed. Let them all go. The sound of a bird flying low across the garden. Then nothing. Nothing. A cloud passes. Nothing again. Light falls through the window, falls onto me, into me. Moments. All gathering towards this one.”

Moments Light Faces Fall Sound Tears Kissing Lows Bird Garden Window Blessed Clouds Flying Adam Strokes Gathering Bird Flying

Author:Jenny Downham

“The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.”

Past Views Worst Clouds Colonialism Worst Things Our Past

Book:Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

Source: Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds”

Streets Angel Clouds Policemen

Author:Charles Bukowski

“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”

Needs Humans Mean Whole Beautiful Destiny Clouds Whole Life Scales Throwing Rejoice Being Human Sunny Sunny Day

Author:Rosa Luxemburg

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”

Whole Body Tree Expression Health Gratitude Healthy Clouds Your Body Cosmos Gratitude For Health Expressions Of Gratitude

Book:Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living

Source: Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living

“I bear my burden proudly for all to see, to conquer prejudice and ignorance and hate with knowledge and sincerity and love. Whenever you are threatened by a hostile presence, you emit a thick cloud of love like an octopus squirts out ink.”

Hate Ignorance Bears And Love Prejudice Clouds Burden Conquer Sincerity Thick Threatened Hostile Ink Octopus

Book:Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.”

Knows Wanted Water Sky Rain Clouds Miserable Holiday Cherish Succession

Book:So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“Look for the Sunlight through the Clouds.”

Looks Clouds Sunlight

Book:Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

Source: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones And if we come to wake we are in His hands If we come to weeping we are His cloud full of raindrops And if we come to laughing we are His lightning in that moment If we come to anger and battle it is the reflection of His wrath And if we come to peace and pardon it is the reflection of His love Who are we in this complicated world?”

Ifs World Moments Hands Sleep Laughing Battle Reflection Clouds Complicated That Moment Lightning His Love Wrath Weeping Pardon Raindrops Drowsy Complicated World

Author:Rumi

“It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can "experience" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images.”

World Giving Mind I Can Real Form Certain Sound Simple Color Structure Clouds Complicated Stores Rational Certainty Twisted Shifting

Book:The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

Source: The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: The structure and dynamics of the psyche

“Shoot for the stars, so if you fall you land on a cloud.”

Ifs Fall Stars Land Clouds

Author:Kanye West

“Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.”

Lovers Tables Clouds Miserable Smoke Elude

Author:Victor Hugo

“I suffered no pain, my hunger had taken the edge off; instead I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all. I put my legs up on the bench and leaned back, the best way to feel the true well-being of seclusion. There wasn't a cloud in my mind, nor did I feel any discomfort, and I hadn't a single unfulfilled desire or craving as far as my thought could reach. I lay with open eyes in a state of utter absence from myself and felt deliciously out of it.”

Source: Hunger

“We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not get smaller! We eat the clouds and evening light. We are slaves tasting the royal wine.”

Humans Doe Sometimes Light Night Sea Drink Lows Wine Slave Clouds Fishes Celebrate Evening Being Human Royal Tasting Evening Light

Author:Rumi

“The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a barely perceptible pause. Then two yellow staring eyes materialized in the heart of the smoke. Hey, it was his first time. I wanted to scare him. And it did, too.”

Firsts Heart Two Eye Wanted Middle First Time Clouds Hey Smoke Staring Scare Yellow Hung Pauses Ceilings Columns

Author:Jonathan Stroud

“This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight.”

Source: F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Complete Novels (Book House)

“The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born in the dream of a dew-washed morning.”

Source: Gitanjali

“I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart.”

People World Heart Book Character Mystery Tree Worst Fields Standing Clouds Confusion Antidote Deep Inside Otherness

Book:Upstream: Selected Essays

Source: Upstream: Selected Essays

“He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.”

Clouds Treasure Phrases Spokes

Book:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

“A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths.”

Ifs Ends Air Sea Land Red Rain Tables Clouds Corners Chairs Flags Lightning Thunder Twisted Liquid Pillars Banner Ragged

Book:The Crack-up

Source: The Crack-up

“But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.”

Years Hands Night Dies Stars Born Hours Millions Sun Forever Week Sky Minutes Months Moon Rain Empty Notes Clouds Circles Scales Snow Clock Fades Swings Reborn Second Hand Sun Rise Revolving Rain And Snow

Book:Prelude

Source: Prelude

“I let my head fall back, and I gazed into the Eternal Blue Sky. It was morning. Some of the sky was yellow, some the softest blue. One small cloud scuttled along. Strange how everything below can be such death and chaos and pain while above the sky is peace, sweet blue gentleness. I heard a shaman say once, the Ancestors want our souls to be like the blue sky.”

Want Soul Pain Fall Morning Heard Sky Strange Sweet Eternal Blue Chaos Clouds Yellow Ancestor Gentleness Fall Back Blue Sky Funny Good Morning Morning Sky

Author:Shannon Hale

“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day; But on the ground, among the hooting crowds, He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”

Way Walks Poet Wings Clouds Crowds Stormy Archer Stormy Days

Book:The Flowers of Evil

Source: The Flowers of Evil

“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”

Source: The Lord of the Rings: The return of the King

“Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again.”

“I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? - Its snaky acids kiss. It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults That kill, that kill, that kill.”

Feels Heart Faces Dark Sleep My Heart Kissing Faults Clouds Branches Pale Incapable Terrified Acid More Knowledge Agitate Dark Things

Book:Ariel: The Restored Edition

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“Clambering up the Cold Mountain path, The Cold Mountain trail goes on and on: The long gorge choked with scree and boulders, The wide creek, the mist-blurred grass. The moss is slippery, though there's been no rain The pine sings, but there's no wind. Who can leap the world's ties And sit with me among the white clouds?”

World Long White Path Wind Goes On Cold Mountain Rain Clouds Wide Grass Ties Leap Trails Mist Slippery Moss Creeks Boulders Gorges Cold Mountain White Clouds

Book:Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems

Source: Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems

“People observe the colors of a day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that a day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spot blues. Murky darkness. In my line of work, I make it a point to notice them.”

Source: The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition

“Let's just call things what they are. When a man's love of finery clouds his moral judgment, that is vanity. When he lets a demanding palate make his moral choices, that is gluttony. When he ascribes the divine will to his own whims, that is pride. And when he gets angry at being reminded of animal suffering that his own daily choices might help avoid, that is moral cowardice.”

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”

“We were going to the long field which today looked like an ocean, although I had never seen an ocean; the grass was moving in the breeze and the cloud shadows passed back and forth and the trees in the distance moved.”

Long Today Moving Tree Fields Ocean Shadow Moved Distance Clouds Grass Breeze Back And Forth Moving In

Book:Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

Source: Novels and Stories: The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Other Stories and Sketches

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