#fusion

Then, slowly, my feet settled to the ground. Before I had taken six steps I sagged like a sail when the wind fades. As I walked back through the town, past sleeping houses and dark inns, my mood swung from elation to doubt in the space of three brief breaths. I had ruined everything. All the things I had said, things that seemed so clever at the time, were in fact the worst things a fool could say. Even now she was inside, breathing a sigh of relief to finally be rid of me. But she had smiled. Had laughed. She hadn't remembered our first meeting on the road from Tarbean. I couldn't have made that much of an impression on her. 'Steal me,' she had said. I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#fantasy #fiction #love #love

Now I had babies confuse before. John Green Dudley, first word out a that boy's mouth was Mama and he was looking straight at me. But then pretty soon he calling everybody including hisself Mama and calling his daddy Mama too... Nobody worry bout it. Course when he start playing dress-up in his sister's Jewel Taylor twirl skirts and wearing Chanel No. 5, we all get a little concern. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#gender-confusion #gender

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#commodity #contrary #diffusion #dispersion #grows

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#confusion #conversion #develop #difficulties #easy

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#body #causes #change #changed #changes

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#art #codes #diffusion #discovery #doubtless

And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#because #becomes #believe #cause #confusion

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#bereavement #cares #confusion #curing #despair

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. ↗

— Herbert Spencer

#greater #his #knowledge #man #more

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God. ↗

— Luis Palau

#confusion #easier #face #god #instead