Salmonberries Quotes & Sayings

You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours. — Shannon L. Alder

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. — Sitting Bull

But if the words struck her only lightly when she was nine, they stayed with her, gaining in density, to insinuate themselves whenever her performance fell short of perfection. They were less a mortification, she feared, than an actual statement of fact: B+ is all you deserve. — Lynne Sharon Schwartz

a square black hole that yawned darkly beneath a stone archway. — Erin Hunter

Thank you to the crows that amass on Vancouver evenings and fly home to the darkness of Burnaby Mountain. Thank you to the brilliance of wet moss and lichen. Thank you to the rays of golden brown light slanting in the cool of a green lake. Thank you to the shoals of glinting fish. Thank you to the sweet gems of salmonberries. Thank you to the decaying leaves for their rich brown smell. Thank you to the slugs and wood lice beneath the leaves. Thank you to to my plant friends who keep me company as I write. I am deeply grateful to share this cycle with you. — Hiromi Goto

I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. — Fernando Pessoa

The great success stories of chemotherapy were always in relatively obscure types of cancer. Childhood leukemia constitutes less than two percent of all cancers and many of chemotherapy's other successes were in diseases so rare that many clinicians had never even seen a single case — Ralph W. Moss

He gives my hand a quick squeeze, surprising me- there are somethings, I guess, that come naturally, even if you've never done them before. — Lauren Oliver

No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. — John F. Kennedy

Awareness is always the first step. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

In rational inquiry, we idealize to selected domains in such a way (we hope) as to permit us to discover crucial features of the world. Data and observations, in the sciences, have an instrumental character. They are of no particular interest in themselves, but only insofar as they constitute evidence that permits one to determine fundamental features of the real world, within a course of inquiry that is invariably undertaken under sharp idealizations, often implicit and simply common understanding, but always present. — Noam Chomsky