Ashikin Quotes & Sayings

How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life. — Leo Tolstoy

Vor stared for a moment at his own reflection in the familiar mirrored face, remembering some of the stupid jokes his friend had told and the innovative military games they had played together. Seurat had never harmed him in any way. — Brian Herbert

Idealism, however impractical, gives a meaning to our existence. — Anirban Bose

Blue-shirt (Blauserk in Inuktitat, the Inuit language), or Mykla Jokull, now known as Gunnbjorn's Peak (12,500 feet)
the great metaphorical centerpiece in William T. Vollmann's saga-like novel The Ice-Shirt
is the great glacier in Greenland used as a landmark by Erik the Red in sailing west from Snaefellsness. — Alexander Theroux

You belong with me. Do you believe me? — Tarryn Fisher

It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery. — Jean Hugard

The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are. — Gerald Jampolsky

The mornings therefore ... are all the sweeter in the knowledge of what the afternoon is likely to bring. — Edward Abbey

Love in the Daytime

My lover
Shines like the sun.
I may be burned
Black as a frying pan,
Sweating buckets
And keeling over
With vertigo,
But why worry?
My lover
Shines like the sun.
She pours over my body
And breathes into my soul.
It feels so good
When she lights
My love on fire
Like dry wood.

Translated from Tigrinya by Charles Cantalupo with Ghirmai Negash — Reesom Haile

Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way you can build its future. — Kyung-Sook Shin

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters. — William Shakespeare