Effimero Lighting Quotes & Sayings

In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant. Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing. Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls. Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished. Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest. Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing. And by its constant demands on the gardner's attentions, it makes of the gardener's life a great adventure. — Paulo Coelho

And suddenly she resembled not so much a bland dish of pudding as the surface of a well-known, yet never explored lake, and he, standing on the banks, had just seen a movement underwater, an enigmatic shadow that disappeared so quickly he wasn't sure he hadn't imagined the whole thing. — Sherry Thomas

The blue was gathered in her hand, and she could feel it quiver, as if it had been given breath and was beginning to live. — Lois Lowry

I like that I have kids still willing to hold my hand. — Christine Taylor

Pity," Magnus said, closing his eyes again. "It would be nice if you could just lie down with me here. Just ... for a little while. — Cassandra Clare

Yes, I am a tad obsessive. For a nonreligious woman, this is my faith. — Rabih Alameddine

Taught by centuries of
living, the republic of immortal men had
achieved a perfection of tolerance, almost of
disdain. They knew that over an infinitely long span of time, all things happen to all men. As
reward for his past and future virtues, every
man merited every kindness - yet also every
betrayal, as reward for his past and future
iniquities. — Jorge Luis Borges

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Ignoring a Reality doesn't make it less Real. It's still going to happen. Being unprepared for something doesn't stop it from happening. — Yasmin Mogahed

Another prayer to a God I didn't quite believe in. — Cat Clarke

I stood in my own field, wanting obligations to fall from me. This is one way of contemplating suicide, yet it's the exact opposite: what I wanted was to be alive, to escape all the damage, to shed it like snakeskin, to emerge pure and naked and laughing. — Jardine Libaire

I don't know much about sports. — Rene Russo

If you are completely comfortable with your life, and feeling absolutely no anxiety, then you are probably coasting, and not really growing. — Mardy Grothe