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For me, walking in a hard Dakota wind can be like staring at the ocean: humbled before its immensity, I also have a sense of being at home on this planet, my blood so like the sea in chemical composition, my every cell partaking of air. I live about as far from the sea as is possible in North America, yet I walk in a turbulent ocean. Maybe that child was right when he told me that the world is upside-down here, and this is where angels drown.


Kathleen Norris


#humility #north-dakota #south-dakota #wind #home

A wave of Time hangs motionless on this particular shore. I notice a tree, arsenical grey in the light, or the slow Wheel of the stars, the Great Bear glittering colder than snow, And remember there was something else I was hoping for.


Theodore Roethke


#inspirational #north-star #snow #time #inspirational

Snow, here?" Eric was as delighted as a child. "I love snow!" Why was I not surprised? "Maybe we will get snowed in together," he said suggestively, waggling his blond eyebrows.


Charlaine Harris


#flirting #love

He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain.


Elizabeth Gaskell


#north-and-south #thornton #love

Good heaven! My dear Isabella, what do you mean? Can you -- can you really be in love with James?


Jane Austen


#northanger-abbey #love

But neither could compare with the gargantuan natural edifice that was the mountain upon which Nachtstürm Castle rose. It was a mountain made of the darkness between two lightning bolts. It was made less of earth than Stygian frost. Whole towns fell away as they ascended, as though the ranks of black and frowning conifers waged war against the humans below. Even the path – rather narrow and rarely straight – seemed less made by centuries of pilgrim feet and more by the trace of some careless demon’s claw. It was, in fact, perfect.


Emily C.A. Snyder


#jane-austen #nachtsturm-castle #northanger-abbey #nature

All the talking in the world couldn't even prove you and the other person both saw the same color red.


L.J. Smith


#poppy-north #teen #teen

You trust me?" Eric sounded surprised. "Yes." "That's . . . crazy, Sookie.


Charlaine Harris


#sookie-eric #trust

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.


Adam Johnson


#capitalism #communism #economics #north-korea #obedience

But Above all things truth beareth away the victory


Plato


#victory






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