“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” – Barnstorming
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“The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.” – Barnstorming
The people you love become ghosts inside of you and like this you keep them alive. The artist Robert Montgomery wrote that sentence after a friend from art college was hit by a car and killed.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
"smile that slowly crumbles like wet sand on the beach".
Thomas Flight • Why the Curse Is So Brilliantly Uncomfortable
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“You broke the cage and flew.” RUMI
Mary Oliver • Felicity: Poems
Sometimes, I picture myself walking in a whole field of Ohio wildflowers and I think about what I've been missing my whole life.
Hal Walker • Urgent: Do Nothing
Hal Walker added
Makes me cry
“While flowers may be a good metaphor for the brevity of life, stones seem better suited to the permanence of memory. Stones do not die.”
Sarah Hurwitz • Here All Along: Finding Meaning, Spirituality, and a Deeper Connection to Life--in Judaism (After Finally Choosing to Look There)
ALL THINGS HAVE A SOUL. A VASE, A WALL, A CHAIR. AND WHEN A VASE IS BROKEN, IT MIGHT DIE IN THE PHYSICAL REALM, BUT FOR A TIME ITS SOUL REMEMBERS WHAT IT WAS. SO ALL THINGS DIE TWICE. ITS FINAL DEATH IS WHEN MEN FORGET IT WAS A VASE, AND THINK ONLY OF THE PIECES. I IMAGINE THE VASE FLOATING AWAY THEN, ITS FORM DISSOLVING INTO THE NOTHINGNESS.
Brandon Sanderson • Oathbringer: Book Three of the Stormlight Archive
…a stone, a leaf, an unfound door; of a leaf, a stone, a door. And of all the forgotten faces. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb, we did not know our mother’s face; from the prison of her flesh have we come into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison of this earth. Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked into... See more