“Don’t ever think that just because you do things differently, you’re wrong.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
“Nothing ever stands still, and neither should you.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
“Sometimes things don’t work out as they’re planned, and there have to be sacrifices in order to make things better again.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
“Fear seems to be the ruling judge.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
“Nothing ever stands still,” she told them. “And neither should you.”
― Gail Tsukiyama, quote from Women of the Silk
Gail Tsukiyama
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“The witch was as old as the mulberry tree
She lived in the house of a hundred clocks
She sold storms and sorrows and calmed the sea
And she kept her life in a box.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
“Physiological confirmation of such “filling in” by involuntary musical imagery has recently been obtained by William Kelley and his colleagues at Dartmouth, who used functional MRI to scan the auditory cortex while their subjects listened to familiar and unfamiliar songs in which short segments had been replaced by gaps of silence. The silent gaps embedded in familiar songs were not consciously noticed by their subjects, but the researchers observed that these gaps “induced greater activation in the auditory association areas than did silent gaps embedded in unknown songs; this was true for gaps in songs with lyrics and without lyrics.”
― Oliver Sacks, quote from Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
“If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche or the Plains of Abraham or Fort Walsh or Charlottetown or Parliament Hill, but in The Caboose and thousands of bars like it that knit the country together from Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia, to the far side of Vancouver Island.”
― Mordecai Richler, quote from Solomon Gursky Was Here
“Seeing as he wasn’t very bright, I was pretty sure that he was going to be good at fighting.”
― Nick Hornby, quote from Slam
“That reminds me." I dug into my book bag and pulled out a white cardboard box tied with a string. "I brought these back for you."
He looked at the box, then at me, before slowly reaching out. "What are they?"
"Poisonous snakes. Open it."
Zachary untied the string. "They seem like very quiet snakes."
"They're stealthy. Or maybe dead.”
― Jeri Smith-Ready, quote from Shade
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