A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.
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Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER This is a thin layer. DEJARVIS LEONARD You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS It took me a sleeve of Girl Scout Thin Mints and forty minutes to get over that boy. JOHN GREEN For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 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MARTIN the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its le... PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY Green sturgeon are on the brink of extinction, and we have a moral obligation to ensure that this an... BRENT PLATER He presses himself so close to me that any hurt left on the surface between us spreads thin, becomes... JODI PICOULT There is a Yew-tree, pride of Lorton Vale,
Which to this day stands single, in the midst
Of it... WILLIAM WORDSWORTH There is a thin line between politics and theatricals. JULIAN BOND You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. My brain is like a cross between a colander and a Lazy Susan - thin, slow, and it leaks. RON WHITE They say there is a thin line between love and friendship.However, after many years of snorting the ... SHKELQIM ZILBEARI It is really a thin line, and it's that way every tournament, the difference between finishing third... BOWEN SARGENT We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of ... LEON ASKIN Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults wo... BETTY SMITH This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. BRANDON SANDERSON You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance. ADAM PEATY I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill,/ In the dawn clouds flying,/ How good to go, light into lig... SARA TEASDALE I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN The Future is a tree, on the bark of which I once crawled THOMAS MC DONALD A tree is honored for the size of its fruit, not the size of its leaves. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Our garden was large and beautiful as that garden in the Bible – the tree of life grew there. But ... JEAN RHYS It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN A tree that allows birds to nest in it should never complain about its shred leaves. VIKRANT PARSAI Alice Oswald. With Hughes and Heaney gone, people are looking around for the best British and Irish ... TOBIAS HILL I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, l... ANGELA CARTER High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all ove... OSCAR WILDE You can coddle your rage, or you can fully engage. TONY CLEAVER The consumer is in pretty good shape. The American consumer hangs in through thick and thin, and now... DAVID ABELLA I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW Light is found on the green. J.R. RIM It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM The line between a bribe and a legal contribution is very thin, but it is that line that keeps you o... LARRY NOBLE What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON An organisation is like a tree. Its growth is measured by the height it attains and the width it cov... ANUJ SOMANY There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to ... JASLEEN KAUR GUMBER
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And I wonder if Lee started all this violence. MARINA OSWALD Be careful that you don't become a hypocrite by spending all your time trying to get others right wi... OSWALD CHAMBERS God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection. OSWALD CHAMBERS Having given us the package, do you think God will deny us the ribbon? OSWALD C. HOFFMAN Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not child's play. Evangelism is work, often hard wor... OSWALD C. HOFFMAN They have found absolutely nothing to connect us with the Communist Party of the United States. In r... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I am a communist and a worker, and I have lived in a decadent capitalist society where the workers a... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I always felt that the Cubans were being pushed into the Soviet Bloc by American policy. LEE HARVEY OSWALD A lot of what I do in the book is debunk these conspiracy theories, LEE HARVEY OSWALD Whenever you fall, pick up something OSWALD THEODORE AVERY And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed. LEE HARVEY OSWALD of sound mind, but very strong-willed, and if his request for permission to remain in the USSR were ... LEE HARVEY OSWALD We do not support the man. We do not support the individual. We support the idea of independent revo... LEE HARVEY OSWALD If the results of the present study on the chemical nature of the transforming principle are confirm... OSWALD THEODORE AVERY Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require ... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol int... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die. LEE HARVEY OSWALD I don't know why you are treating me like this. The only thing I have done is carry a pistol into a ... LEE HARVEY OSWALD I want citizenship because I am a communist and a worker, I have lived in a decadent capitalist soci... LEE HARVEY OSWALD Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. ALICE WATERS I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire... ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated... ALICE WALKER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ... ALICE DREGER I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor... ALICE WALTON It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. ALICE WALKER I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. ALICE SEBOLD My father loved 'Godard and Truffaut.' He was more artsy. My mom loved the 'Bourne' ... ALICE BRAGA What interests me is whatever it is that allows the heart to continue to yearn for something the int... ALICE MCDERMOTT You just let your lower self go, and then it takes on all these aspects of the society - the city wi... ALICE COOPER If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows - pillows stuffed with fo... ALICE WALKER How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house th... ALICE WALKER We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves. ALICE BLOCH