In the midst of life we are in death, Episcopalians say at the graveside.
“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
―
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,
"You owe me."
Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”
―
“Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.”
― Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
― Death, Taxes, and Leaky Waders : A John Gierach Fly-Fishing Treasury
“Every man suddenly became related to Kino's pearl, and Kino's pearl went into the dreams, the speculations, the schemes, the plans, the futures, the wishes, the needs, the lusts, the hungers, of everyone, and only one person stood in the way and that was Kino, so that he became curiously every man's enemy. The news stirred up something infinitely black and evil in the town; the black distillate was like the scorpion, or like hunger in the smell of food, or like loneliness when love is withheld. The poison sacs of the town began to manufacture venom, and the town swelled and puffed with the pressure of it.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“To determine to go and to say it was to be halfway there”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”
― The Pearl
― The Pearl
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