Rivera Sun · 417 pages
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“All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library.”
― Rivera Sun, quote from Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“A freedom given up is not so easily regained.”
― Rivera Sun, quote from Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“The Earth was singing her revolution. She was calling her brave men and women to her defense.”
― Rivera Sun, quote from Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“Geography and mileage mean nothing. Separate is a single word that covers all distances that aren't together.”
― Rivera Sun, quote from Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“We've got to make change our national pastime and hold protests more regularly than weekend parties.”
― Rivera Sun, quote from Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“The woman looked out at the madness of the world and dared to hope. Her eyes were burning coals of stars.”
― Rivera Sun, quote from Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.”
― Rivera Sun, quote from Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.”
― Rivera Sun, quote from Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“Stop listening to the TV tell you about America the beautiful . . . get up and be America the beautiful.”
― Rivera Sun, quote from Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“No one's life made sense on paper. You cannot condense a person into facts.”
― Rivera Sun, quote from Steam Drills, Treadmills and Shooting Stars - a story of our times -
“One demands a little originality in these days, even from murderers,” said Lady Swaffham. “Like dramatists, you know—so much easier in Shakespeare’s time, wasn’t it? Always the same girl dressed up as a man, and even that borrowed from Boccaccio or Dante or somebody. I’m sure if I’d been a Shakespeare hero, the very minute I saw a slim-legged young page-boy I’d have said: ‘Ods-bodikins! There’s that girl again!”
― Dorothy L. Sayers, quote from Whose Body?
“My mother was a royal virgin," Peterson said, "and my father a shower of gold. My childhood was pastoral and energetic and rich in experiences which developed my character. As a young man I was noble in reason, infinite in faculty, in form express and admirable, and in apprehension..." Peterson went on and on and although he was, in a sense, lying, in a sense he was not.”
― Donald Barthelme, quote from Sixty Stories
“If the feet of enlightenment moved, the great ocean would overflow; If that head bowed, it would look down upon the heavens.
Such a body has no place to rest. . . .
Let another continue this poem.”
― quote from Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings
“His eyes were anything but friendly, the color of bitter storms.”
― Nora Roberts, quote from Sea Swept
“I’ll say no more about that, or I’ll be falling into the dismals”
― Georgette Heyer, quote from A Civil Contract
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