#limb

Traveling at night toward the stars, I thought yet again how very far away they were, and how you could travel your whole lifetime and never reach even the closest one. But even if you knew you couldn’t have something, it didn’t stop you wanting it. I wondered if Kate was to be my star, and I’d spend my life gazing upon her but never reaching her. ↗

— Kenneth Oppel

#life

It's time to make love, douse the glim; The fireflies twinkle and dim; The stars lean together Like birds of a feather, And the loin lies down with the limb. ↗

— Conrad Aiken

#coitus #fireflies #intercourse #lamb #limb

As she walked along she dramatized the night. There was about it a wild, lawless charm that appealed to a certain wild, lawless strain hidden deep in Emily’s nature—the strain of the gypsy and the poet, the genius and the fool. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#emily #nature

Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#climbing #done #floating #grand #grand canyon

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#climb #mountains #out #pebble #shoe

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher. ↗

— Oksana Baiul

#climb #completely #feel #happy #higher

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#climb #failures #finding #heaven #most

I was two and a half when I first climbed up and sat at a piano. ↗

— Tori Amos

#first #half #i #piano #sat

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#been #before #climbing #ever #fed

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#because #bird #climbed #i #i always