#air

Darkness. The door into the neighboring room is not quite shut. A strip of light stretches through the crack in the door across the ceiling. People are walking about by lamplight. Something has happened. The strip moves faster and faster and the dark walls move further and further apart, into infinity. This room is London and there are thousands of doors. The lamps dart about and the strips dart across the ceiling. And perhaps it is all delirium... Something had happened. The black sky above London burst into fragments: white triangles, squares and lines - the silent geometric delirium of searchlights. The blinded elephant buses rushed somewhere headlong with their lights extinguished. The distinct patter along the asphalt of belated couples, like a feverish pulse, died away. Everywhere doors slammed and lights were put out. And the city lay deserted, hollow, geometric, swept clean by a sudden plague: silent domes, pyramids, circles, arches, towers, battlements. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#bombing #london #war #men

For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he said, so softly I could barely hear him, "here in the dark, with you… I have no name. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#identity #jamie-fraser #love #love

You are never stronger, thought Samad as approached the doctor, than when you land on the other side of despair. ↗

— Zadie Smith

#inspirational

I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack. 'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#fear #giants #inspirational #jack #right

Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. ↗

— Thorne Smith

#am #america #freely #greatest #hair

Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are. ↗

— Jean Rostand

#even #fair #heed #not fair #resist

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#inspiration #life #winning #inspirational

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. ↗

— Aberjhani

#famous-poet #hope-and-despair #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #intellectualism

I am never alone wherever I am. The air itself supplies me with a century of love. When I breathe in, I am breathing in the laughter, tears, victories, passions, thoughts, memories, existence, joys, moments, and the hues of the sunlight on many tones of skin; I am breathing in the same air that was exhaled by many before me. The air that bore them life. And so how can I ever say that I am alone? ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#breath #breathing #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #inspiring

I need to hear the words of this book—its truth, forgiveness, hope—as much as anybody.” Nathaniel looked up with an apologetic smile. “I know I’m no great orator. But I ask you to bear with me as I fumble through this new duty. ↗

— Julie Klassen

#fairbourne-hall #nathaniel-upchurchiel #forgiveness