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Orhan Pamuk quote: "Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate...."
Snow reminds Ka of God! But I’m not sure it would be accurate. What brings me close to God is the silence of snow. Orhan Pamuk
...a chasm opened in the earth and out of it coal-black horses sprang, drawing a chariot and driven by one who had a look of dark splendor, majestic and beautiful and terrible. He caught her to him and held her close. The next moment she was being borne away from the radiance of earth in springtime to the world of the dead by the king who rules it. Edith Hamilton
Henry David Thoreau quote: "It is remarkable how closely the hisory of the apple tree is..."
It is remarkable how closely the hisory of the apple tree is connected with that of man. Henry David Thoreau
What began as downsizing went on to wholesale abandonment. Schools closed, libraries and academies shut their doors, professional grammarians and teachers of rhetoric found themselves out of work. There were more important things to worry about than the fate of books. Stephen Greenblatt
You still don't like the idea of gay marriage? Then, as my friend the economist Julianne Malveaux says: Don't marry a gay person. Case closed, problem solved. Barbara Ehrenreich
There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled Beryl Bainbridge
Truly, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! Fay Weldon
As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence. Michael Palin
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining always, disappears. In the weak circles of increasing years; And his short tumults of themselves compose, While flowing Time above his head does close. Andrew Marvell
George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy on her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. E. M. Forster
The complexity - the close texture - of all the great events in the Christian year impresses me more and more. Each is a window opening on the total mystery. C. S. Lewis
From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes. Jane Austen
She isn't the girl who used to live next door, hasn't been for years. Back then she had freckles and jeans with holes at the knees and a ponytail yanked so tight it made her eyes pull at the corners. Now she wears pantyhose and tailored suits; she has had the same short bob hairstyle for five years. But when Patrick gets close enough, she still smells like childhood to him. Jodi Picoult
Henry Rollins quote: "The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me..."
The times I have tried to get close to someone resulted in me feeling threatened and weak. Henry Rollins
Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in. Nora Roberts

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