“Spring and Fall: To a Young Child Márgarét, are you gríeving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leáves, líke the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! ás the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wíll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sórrow's spríngs áre the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It ís the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.” KnowsMenWorldMindHeartChildrenMatterCareYoungLyingFallNamesGrowsBornHeardSpringMouthsSightGhostSparesSighMournYoung ChildrenBlightWhy Now Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)
“She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.” WorldWayLifeWellsChildrenLongStillsWarRealCountryPlayLyingFightingParentBoysGenerationsBrotherMouthsFairsTiredMonstersDestroyedExpectingPacksLong WayLiedThis GenerationCountry LoveGod And Country Author:Libba Bray
“And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.” IfsLyingStepsDrawsMouthsBreathsCarefulStrikesAngleLeaksCandorTilt Book:Tilt Source: Tilt