“In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It seemed as if the goddess of wisdom - Sharada, represented by waters of Kashmir, was unwilling to let me abduct the manuscript. This is what happened 1200 years ago to the Chinese pilgrim Hiuen-Tsang, who had to leave his Sanskrit manuscript in the angry Indus River.” IfsYearsMadeNightWaterWorryHappenedYears AgoRiversLet MeSafetyAngryStormChineseLakesGoddessUnwillingPilgrimManuscriptsKashmirSanskrit Author:Aurel Stein
“Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.” PeopleThinkingShouldYearsSaidMomentsRunningNextSeaMinutesHundredYears AgoRiversShould HaveRunning AwayRest Of Your LifeMake You ThinkOne Minute Author:Alice Hoffman
“She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago, she had a young child's perfectly shallow receptiveness; she fitted into the world of time, it fitted into her, as thoughtlessly as sky fits its edges, or a river its banks. But as she has grown, her smile has widened with a touch of fear and her glance has taken on depth. Now she is aware of some of the losses you incur by being here--the extortionary rent you have to pay as long as you stay.” WorldYearsChildrenLongSelfYoungThreeGrowsLossPayTakenFourSkyFitYears AgoRiversDepthEdgesNineBelovedFour YearsShallowGlancesYoung ChildrenHer SmileSelf Contained Book:Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“Four thousand years ago, we, the people of the Indus River basin, had cities that were laid out on grids and boasted underground sewers, while the ancestors of those who would invade and colonize America were illiterate barbarians.” PeopleYearsAmericaCitiesFourThousandYears AgoRiversAncestorThousand YearsBarbariansIlliterateGridsSewers Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I will think of you, for without you I would have been dead years ago. When I wake up and when I sleep, when I lift up my hands to defend myself or when I lie down to die, you will be with me. You say we are born and born again. I say there is a river that divides the dead and the living. What I do know is that if we are born again, I will meet you in another life, and if there is a river, you will wait on the shores for me to come to you, so that we can cross together.” IfsThinkingKnowsYearsHas BeensStillsHandsTogetherLyingDiesWaitingBornSleepYears AgoRiversCrossesWake UpBreatheLiftsShoreDividesPrincessLeaving MeWithout YouThink Of YouBorn AgainWill HerondaleAnother LifeJemClockworkJem CarstairsClockwork Princess Author:Cassandra Clare
“I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers shaping it to a point and the cliff rising above me like a challenge.” YearsFirstsTwoChallengesCitiesSawsFirst TimeYears AgoRiversHillsRisingCliffsRise AboveMistLavender Author:Theodore White
“What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged dangers that have threatened us! If the idea stands up, I thought, it would be worth uncovering the typewriter! How Richard-years-ago would have wanted to know: What happens when we set off searching for a soulmate who doesn't exist, and find her?” IfsKnowsMenYearsIdeasStoriesHappensWould BeWantedDangerMen And WomenYears AgoRiversThreatenedSoulmateTypewritersUncovering Author:Richard Bach