Laurie Lee · 192 pages
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“For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.”
― Laurie Lee, quote from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
“I felt once again the unease of arriving at night in an unknown city--that faint sour panic which seems to cling to a place until one has found oneself a bed.”
― Laurie Lee, quote from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
“But I think my most lasting impression was still the unhurried dignity and noblesse with which the Spaniard handled his drink. He never gulped, panicked, pleaded with the barman, or let himself be shouted into the street. Drink, for him, was one of the natural privileges of living, rather than the temporary suicide it so often is for others. But then it was lightly taxed here, and there were no licensing laws; and under such conditions one could take one's time.”
― Laurie Lee, quote from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
“I felt it was for this I had come: to wake at dawn on a hillside and look out on a world for which I had no words, to start at the beginning, speechless and without plan, in a place that still had no memories for me.”
― Laurie Lee, quote from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
“The borders of consciousness are anxious enough, raw and desperate places; we shouldn't be dragged across them like struggling thieves as if sleep was a felony.”
― Laurie Lee, quote from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
“There are brilliant evocations of intense heat (‘the brass-taloned lion which licks the afternoon ground ready to consume anyone not wise enough to take cover’) and sunlight (it ‘struck upwards, sideways and down, while the wheat went buckling across the fields like a solid sheet of copper’),”
― Laurie Lee, quote from As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
Laurie Lee
Born place: in Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, The United Kingdom
Born date June 26, 1914
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“The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.”
― Francine Rivers, quote from As Sure as the Dawn
“Life got in the way -- two years in the army, work, marriage, family responsibilities, the need to earn more and more money, all the muck that bogs us down when we don't have the balls to stand up for ourselves -- but I had never lost my interest in books.”
― Paul Auster, quote from The Brooklyn Follies
“What did I tell you, son?” he says, looking at Asher. “When it happens – BOOM!” He makes a motion with his hands of an explosion”
― Aurora Rose Reynolds, quote from Until November
“Hey I'm sorry about the other day. Didn't mean to give you a hard time, I ---"
He held up his hands. "It's no problem. And I didn't mean to be pushy. But i've seen a lot of people let the bad around them make them hard or stubborn. In the end, they miss the chance to make their world bette because they only see the worst in it."
There was still something about the tone of his voice and his features that made me feel like I knew him.
"I know what you mean." I shook my head. "I don't want to be like that. But I get so angry. Sometimes I feel like I know too much, or that I've done things I can't make right, and it just hovers over me. And when I see things happen that shouldn't..."
"You don't know what to do with yourself."
"Exactly."
He nodded. "Well, I'd start by thinking about what's good. Then I'd ask myself how I could make that good even better."
I laughed. "That doesn't make sense."
He stood. "You just think about it a little.”
― Kiera Cass, quote from The Selection Stories: The Prince & The Guard
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