#moon

I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#moon #paris

Those horses must have been Spanish jennets, born of mares mated with a zephyr; for they went as swiftly as the wind, and the moon, which had risen at our departure to give us light, rolled through the sky like a wheel detached from its carriage... ↗

— Théophile Gautier

#moon #travel #spanish

She didn't quite know what the relationship was between lunatics and the moon, but it must be a strong one, if they used a word like that to describe the insane. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#moon #insanity

Because there was just one thing that I had to believe to be able to live - I had to know that he existed. That was all. Everything else I could endure. So long as he existed. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#endurance

It never made sense for you to love me. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#love

It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass. With the light all around us, we felt secret in that moon-infused water like pearls forming in the soft tissues of oysters. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#music

Go for the moon. If you don't get it, you'll still be heading for a star. ↗

— Willis Reed

#go #heading #moon #star #still

I’m a survivor. And like the moon, I have a feeling it would take a truly spectacular event to keep me from taking my place in the scheme of things, waxing, waning, and eclipsing notwithstanding. ↗

— Janet Rebhan

#eclipse-of-the-moon #eclipse-quote #inspirational #inspirational-attitude #inspirational-life

I thought about that for a minute - about what I wanted. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#new-thought

Ben Adaephon Delat," Pearl said plaintively, "see the last who comes. You send me to my death." "I know," Quick Ben whispered. "Flee, then. I will hold them enough to ensure your escape no more." Quick Ben sank down past the roof. Before he passed from sight Pearl spoke again. "Ben Adaephon Delat, do you pity me?" "Yes" he replied softly, then pivoted and dropped down into darkness. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#malazan #of-the-moon #steven-erikson #death