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“And he knew again that she was not saying everything she meant; in a kind of secret language she was telling him today something that he must remember and understand tomorrow. He watched her face, his heart swollen with love for her and with an anguish, not yet his own, that he did not understand and that frightened him.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

“Watch and pray,” he said. “Watch and pray. The day of judgment is at hand.”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“We looked at the venerable stream not in the vivid flush of a short day that comes and departs for ever, but in the August light of abiding memories.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“The tethering of words to reality helps allay the worry that language ensnares us in a self-contained web of symbols.”
― Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature