“But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like goldSunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.” AgeSpiritWaterSecretColdUnderstood Book:Flame and Shadow Source: Flame and Shadow
“Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.” RealSoulEndsMatterInspirationSpiritTurnsSecretBrainBloodJourneyAdventureColdLoversSickWeightMeetingsCloudsNostalgiaGrayAdventurerDismayLovers Meeting Book:Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition) Source: Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
“Those who will not slip beneath the still surface on the well of grief turning downward through it s black water to the place we cannot breathe will never know the source from which we drink, the secret water, cold and clear, nor find in the darkness glimmering the small round coins thrown by those who wished for something else.” KnowsWellsStillsBlackWaterGriefSecretDarknessClearSourceColdDrinkRoundsSurfaceBreatheThrownSlipsCoins Author:David Whyte
“[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina.” SecretColdMeetingsAgentsBoardsRidingSuspiciousRuthlessBiographersSecret AgentBoard MeetingsEmbezzlement Author:Paul Murray Kendall