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“Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.”

Rocks Beats Stones Disaster Covered Rolling Rolling Stones Moss Stasis

Book:The Quit

Source: The Quit

“When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?”

Doe Differences Stones Graves Soil Covered

Author:Milan Kundera

“The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations), "A rolling stone gathers no moss." Epidemiologist S. Leonard Syme observes that to the Japanese, moss is exquisite and valued; a stone is enhanced by moss; hence a person who keeps moving and changing never acquires the beauty and benefits of stability. To Americans, the proverb is an admonition to keep rolling, to keep from being covered with clinging attachments.”

Persons Moving Nations Differences Benefits Stones Opposites Reactions Acquire Attachment Covered Stability Rolling Keep Moving Exquisite Clinging Rolling Stones Moss Admonition

Author:Carol Tavris

“My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.”

Made Hard Faces Broken Safe Stones Revelations Mask Covered Cracked Psychosis

Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“I also remember riding home from a wonderful day with only my bathing shorts, losing the chain of my bicycle, having no hand breaks, and slipping high speed on a street covered with stones. I had to go to the hospital.”

Home Hands Remember Break Wonderful Streets Losing Stones Speed Chains Hospitals Covered Riding Bicycle Slipping Shorts Bathing High Speed Wonderful Day

Author:Volker Bertelmann

“Here was a torture that Greek inventors of the Feast and the Stone had omitted from their Hades: the Blanket of Self-Deception. A lovely warm blanket as far as it covered the soul in torment, but it never quite covered everything.”

Soul Self Stones Warm Lovely Deception Greek Torture Covered Torment Inventor Blanket Self Deception Hades

Book:The Corrections: A Novel

Source: The Corrections: A Novel

“Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them - a mother's approval, a father's nod - are covered by moments of their own accomplishments. It is not until much later, as the skin sags and the heart weakens, that children understand; their stories, and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones, beneath the waters of their lives.”

Source: The Five People You Meet In Heaven

“I tried to visualize my jealousy as a yellowy-brown cloud boiling around inside me, then going out through my nose like smoke and turning into a stone and falling down into the ground. That did work a little. But in my visualization a plant covered with poison berries would grow out of the stone, whether I wanted it to or not.”

Littles Wanted Fall Grows Stones Plant Clouds Smoke Noses Poison Brown Covered Going Out Falling Down Visualization Berries Boiling

Author:Margaret Atwood

“A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.”

Source: Monologue of a Dog

“... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!”

“But then the girl moved, and smiled, and pulled her hand from the grate- a gorgeous green stone clutched tightly in her grasp. It was covered with dust and cobwebs, but it was uncracked and unharmed. And, of course, completely fake.”

Hands Girl Courses Stones Green Moved Dust Fake Covered Gorgeous Cobwebs Grate

Book:Uncommon Criminals

Source: Uncommon Criminals

“There's always the dinner rolls," said Will, pointing to a covered basket. "Though I warn you, they're as hard as stones. You could use them to kill black beetles, if any beetles bother you in the middle of the night.”

Ifs Said Hard Use Night Black Middle Stones Dinner Bother Covered Pointing Baskets Middle Of The Night Beetles

Book:The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess

Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess