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“I am only about half alive - a large part of my strength is consumed in sitting up or walking. My nervous system is a shattered wreck, and I am absolutely bored & listless save when I come upon something which peculiarly interests me. However - so many things do interest me, & interest me intensely, in science, history, philosophy, & literature; that I have never actually desired to die, or entertained any suicidal designs, as might be expected of one with so little kinship to the ordinary features of life.”

“... the most ordinary everyday living is as delicate, as breath-taking, as difficult, takes as terrific physical and mental control and effort, as walking a tightrope.”

Difficult Effort Walking Ordinary Breaths Everyday Delicate Terrific Everyday Living

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Heather Lende's small town is populated with big hearts--she finds them on the beach, walking her granddaughters, in the stories of ordinary peoples' lives, and knits them into unforgettable tales. Find the Good is a treasure.”

Heart Stories Bigs Walking Ordinary Towns Treasure Tales Beach Small Town Ordinary People Unforgettable Granddaughter Big Heart Heathers

Author:Jo-Ann Mapson

“I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.”

Feels Roles Walking Ordinary Red Covered Sweat Carpet Red Carpet

Author:Kate Winslet

“[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile.”

Trying War Helping Faces Social Situation Events Walking Ordinary Companionship Thrust Casualties God Help Sufferers Small Talk

Author:William Styron

“The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry.”

Walking Activity Ordinary Bread Contemplation Baking Laundry Compatible Baking Bread

Book:The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and

Source: The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and

“When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.”

“That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.”

People World Feels Children Remember Suffering Alive Worst Walking Ordinary Careful Monsters Naked Paradox Buried Shells Only Time Protective Armour Adaptive Walking Dead

Book:Letters of Ted Hughes

Source: Letters of Ted Hughes

“He strode over to the ruined church. This, Blue had discovered, was how Gansey got places - striding. Walking was for ordinary people.”

People Church Walking Ordinary Blue Ruined Ordinary People Gansey

Book:The Raven Boys

Source: The Raven Boys

“The kids kept walking, moving through the Henley's halls like a tide, but when Kat turned to leave, she walked in the opposite directions. She wasn't an ordinary kid, after all. Katarina Bishop followed no one.”

Kids Moving Walking Ordinary Opposites Halls Tides Bishops Katarina Bishop

Book:Heist Society

Source: Heist Society