Lionish Quotes & Sayings

Reading was what I needed to beat back all that noise and silence, those horrible silences. . . .An ink pen was the only way to carve a voice out of the air and have others hear it. — Reginald Dwayne Betts

I find C major to be the key of strength, but also the key of regret. E major is the key of confidence. A-flat major is the key of renunciation. — Bob Dylan

Aegean Islands 1940-41

Where white stares, smokes or breaks,
Thread white, white of plaster and of foam,
Where sea like a wall falls;
Ribbed, lionish coast,
The stony islands which blow into my mind
More often than I imagine my grassy home;

To sun one's bones beside the
Explosive, crushed-blue, nostril-opening sea
(The weaving sea, splintered with sails and foam,
Familiar of famous and deserted harbours,
Of coins with dolphins on and fallen pillars.)

To know the gear and skill of sailing,
The drenching race for home and the sail-white houses,
Stories of Turks and smoky ikons,
Cry of the bagpipe, treading
Of the peasant dancers;

The dark bread
The island wine and the sweet dishes;
All these were elements in a happiness
More distant now than any date like '40,
A. D. or B. C., ever can express. — Bernard Spencer

He was massive, a veritable Arnold Schwarzenegger of a cat, with a wide, handsome face and a proud, lionish expression. — Nicholas Dodman

airing the marmots — Virginia Woolf

I am wandering inside, wandering through my past, trying to see if there is a place there strong enough to hold me.
- Ruth Mendenberg — Carol Matas

'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.' — Lois Lowry

Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time. — Geneen Roth

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds. — Allen Boyd

I am awaiting the day when people remember the fact that discovery does not work by deciding what you want and then discovering it. — David Mermin

What's it like here?
There's a biscuit factory next door. We get the broken ones. — Hiedi Thomas Jennifer Worth

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. — Thomas Carlyle