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“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars.”

Earth Stars Dark White Fire Bed Rivers Stones Seeds Remembered Pockets Skirts Arranging

Book:New and selected poems

Source: New and selected poems

“Some questions cannot be answered. They become familiar weights in the hand, round stones pulled from the pocket, unyielding and cool.”

Hands Stones Weight Rounds Familiar Pockets Unyielding

Book:Of Gravity & Angels

Source: Of Gravity & Angels

“I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket money into buying LPs. I followed the ascent of the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, and Stevie Wonder. I followed popular music very closely, and I've never stopped.”

Wonder Stones Hip Hop Hips Teenager Buying Pockets Hops Rolling Rolling Stones Ascent Popular Music

Author:Simon de Pury

“The smooth stones you pick up and examine under the moon's light have been made blue from the sea. Next morning when you pull them from your trouser pocket, they are still blue.”

Has Beens Made Stills Light Next Morning Sea Moon Picks Stones Blue Pockets Smooth

Book:All of Us: The Collected Poems

Source: All of Us: The Collected Poems

“As the days piled up into weeks, and the weeks turned into months, and fall slid into winter, I realized one of the great truths about tragedy: You can dream of disappearing. You can wish for oblivion, for endless sleep or the escape of fiction, of walking into a river with your pockets full of stones, of letting the dark water close over your head. But if you've got kids, the web of the world holds you close and wraps you tight and keeps you from falling no matter how badly you think you want to fall.”

Source: Certain Girls: A Novel

“I remember things like that...A lifetimes accredidation of unkindness, all of those little longering hurts that I carried around like stones sewn into my pockets.”

Littles Remember Hurt Stones Lifetime Pockets Unkindness

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“I left the jutra to chop wood. I began my walk through the snow, five kilometers to the tree line. That's when I saw it. A tiny silver of gold appeared between shades of gray on the horizon. I stared at the amber band of sunlight, smiling. The sun had returned. I closed my eyes. I felt Andrius moving close. "I'll see you," he said. "Yes, I will see you," I whispered "I will." I reached into my pocket and squeezed the stone.”

Said Eye Moving Left Felt Lines Walks Sun Five Saws Tree Band Stones Gold Woods Tiny Snow Pockets Silver Horizon Gray Shade Sunlight Amber Shades Of Gray

Author:Ruta Sepetys

“This sadness wasn't a huge part of me--I wasn't remotely depressed--but still, it was like a stone I carried in my pocket. I always knew it was there. [p. 179]”

Stills Sadness Huge Stones Pockets

Author:Dani Shapiro

“I thought the earth remembered me, she took me back so tenderly, arranging her dark skirts, her pockets full of lichens and seeds. I slept as never before, a stone on the river bed, nothing between me and the white fire of the stars but my thoughts, and they floated light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees. All night I heard the small kingdoms breathing around me, the insects, and the birds who do their work in the darkness. All night I rose and fell, as if in water, grappling with a luminous doom. By morning I had vanished at least a dozen times into something better.”

Source: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

“I have something for you," he said. He dug into his pocket and brought out something, which he pressed into her hand. It was a gray stone, slightly uneven, worn to smoothness in spots. "Huh," said Clary, turning it over in her fingers. "You know, when most girls say they want a big rock, they don't mean, you know, literally a big rock.”

Knows Want Mean Said Hands Bigs Girl Rocks Stones Fingers Spots Pockets Gray Worn

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his palm, thinking of all mysteries the world contained: layers of stone, concealed beneath the flesh of earth and grass; these dull rocks, with their glimmering hidden hearts.”

Thinking World Heart Earth Lasts Father Mystery Rocks Keys Stones Flesh Grass Dull Pockets Gray Layers Smooth Palms Concealed

Book:The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel

Source: The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel