#suns

Once I saw a chimpanzee gaze at a particularly beautiful sunset for a full 15 minutes, watching the changing colors [and then] retire to the forest without picking a pawpaw for supper. ↗

— Adriaan Kortlandt

#nature #sunset #beauty

A growing heat, like a million blazing suns all focused on me, lit my insides. It felt like I was being cooked in the Gabriella Roast Cooker, me spinning around-and-around to heat my flesh evenly. For some reason I was having trouble comprehending the sudden change in my revolving world as I swelled with a horrible, billowing fire. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#blazing #fire #heat #kreitzer #suns

Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

I knew nothing of death, and, for some unexplainable reason, I was beginning to feel guilty for that. -Jessica ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #guilt #minutes-before-sunset #paranormal #romance

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#ocean #sea #sky #sunset #dreams

It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. ↗

— Angela Carter

#contract #democratic #ever #everyone #had

In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#faith #god #sunset #thought #faith

Even trained for years as we all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#sunshine #wisdom #experience

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#nature #sunshine #nature

Elder mocked me for praying once, and i spent an hour berating him for that. He ended up throwing up his hands, laughing, and telling me i could believe whatever i wanted if i was going to hold onto my beliefs so hard. ↗

— Beth Revis

#beliefs #faith #faith