“And I feel like the Queen of Water. I feel like water that transforms from a flowing river to a tranquil lake to a powerful waterfall to a freshwater spring to a meandering creek to a salty sea to raindrops gentle on your face to hard, stinging hail to frost on a mountaintop, and back to a river again.”
― Laura Resau, quote from The Queen of Water
“I see that if you try to fit someone in a box, she might slip through the seams like water and become her own river.”
― Laura Resau, quote from The Queen of Water
“I move onward, through the colors and cheers and music, floating into my future, and it is a clear, open space that stretches wider that the sky and higher than the Andes.”
― Laura Resau, quote from The Queen of Water
“Maybe that’s what I need to do now, muster up everything that was ever vivísima about me and somehow find a way to stand tall.”
― Laura Resau, quote from The Queen of Water
“Have you noticed that if you really want something, you can make it happen? But you need to be sure it's what you really want, because sometimes, when it comes true, you realize too late that it's not what you wanted. Not at all.”
― Laura Resau, quote from The Queen of Water
“Where do you want to live? Do you want to live free and poor and covered in flea welts? Or enslaved, with your own clean room and a shower with hot water? Who are you, Virginia? Who are you, really?”
― Laura Resau, quote from The Queen of Water
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“I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed.”
― Annie Dillard, quote from Holy the Firm
“This is a war against lies. If we want to win, we can't attack in straight lines.”
― Susan Campbell Bartoletti, quote from The Boy Who Dared
“يقول سبينوزا: إننا تتقاذفنا الأسباب الخارجية من كل ناحية، ونتحرك كأمواج تدفعها رياح معاكسة لا نعرف شيئاً عن مصيرنا. والإنسان إذا تحكمت به العواطف لا يرى إلا جانباً واحداً من الموقف. وبالفكر وحده يستطيع الإنسان أن يرى موقفه من جميع نواحيه. إن العاطفة فكرة ناقصة. والعواطف الغريزية عظيمة كقوة دافعة ولكنها خطيرة كمرشد لنا، لأن كل واحدة من الغرائز تبحث عن إشباع رغباتها، غير مهتمة بمصلحة الشخصية كلها. أي دمار نزل بالناس بسبب الإفراط في الطمع وحب الخصام أو الشهوات حتى غدوا عبيد غرائزهم التي تسيطر عليهم. إن العواطف التي تهاجمنا كل يوم مرتبطة بجزء من الجسد الذي يتأثر بها أكثر من بقية الأجزاء، والعواطف متطرفة وتمنع العقل من التفكير إلا في موضوع واحد، ولا يعود يقوى على التفكير في الأشياء الأخرى”
― Will Durant, quote from The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“... I felt that it was not so different from all the other advice handed out to women, to girls, advice that assumed being female made you damageable, that a certain amount of carefulness and solemn fuss and self-protection were called for, whereas men were supposed to be able to go out and take on all kinds of experiences and shuck off what they didn’t want and come back proud. Without even thinking about it, I had decided to do the same”
― Alice Munro, quote from Lives of Girls and Women
“The Mongols consumed a steady diet of meat, milk, yogurt, and other dairy products, and they fought men who lived on gruel made from various grains. The grain diet of the peasant warriors stunted their bones, rotted their teeth, and left them weak and prone to disease. In contrast, the poorest Mongol soldier ate mostly protein, thereby giving him strong teeth and bones.”
― Jack Weatherford, quote from Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
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