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“Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.”

Ifs Writing Years Young Three Acting Arms Periods Promise Weight Victim Seven Settling Mature Judged Platforms Unfortunate Rope Seven Years Young Writers Hangman Nooses

Book:Enemies of Promise

Source: Enemies of Promise

“Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.”

Trying Two Joy Bits Struggle Tree Missing Promise Seasons Weight Violent

Author:Lysa TerKeurst

“Like children, the elders are a burden. But unlike children, they offer no hope or promise. They are a weight and an encumbrance and a mirror of our own mortality. It takes a person of great heart to see past this fact and to see the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us.”

Heart Children Persons Facts Past Gratitude Promise Offers Weight Mirrors Burden Mortality Elders No Hope Great Hearts

Book:Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

Source: Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Life, and Love

“The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.”

Heart Found Sun Food Wall Promise Seasons Weight Cooking Woods Culinary Rats Pulse Dungeons

Author:Bernard DeVoto

“Jane-Sweetie, we've talked about your weight-" my mother began. I'm only eight years old," I said. "How about I promise to be anorexic later?”

Years Said Mother Promise Weight Eight Jane I Promise Anorexics

Book:Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

“I'm trying to keep"― he huffed, shifting his weight as the treetop bounced him―"my promise!" I blinked my wet blurry eyes, suddenly sure that I was dreaming. "When did you ever promise to kill yourself falling out of Charlie's tree?”

Trying Dream Eye Fall Tree Promise Weight Wet Shifting Charlie Killing Yourself Blurry Treetops

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ideas have lasted thousands of years . . . I hope I am always walled in by the very weight and breadth and clumsy, inefficient, antiquated bulk of them, hope that I spend my last days on this Earth arranging and rearranging them on thrones of good, honest pine, oak, and mahogany, because I just like to look at their covers, and dream of the promise of the great stories inside.”

Years Looks Book Ideas Stories Dream Earth Lasts Honest Promise Paper Weight Bounds Thrones Oaks Last Day Glue Clumsy Breadth Arranging Rearranging Mahogany

Author:Rick Bragg