Arms Quote by Amanda Lindhout

I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms—or,…

— Amanda Lindhout

How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I wouldn't do it…

— Sarah Dessen

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back…

— Ruta Sepetys

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the…

— David Toop

And I felt a sudden whirl in my head, knowing this leap was inevitable, that I wasn't just standing on the cliff, toes poking…

— Sarah Dessen

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

— George Harrison

I began to see my body like an iPad or a car. I would drive it and demand things from it. It had no…

— Eve Ensler

I became stiff as a safety, and so I had to learn to move like a corner and think like a corner.

— Nnamdi Asomugha

It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit.

— Margaret Atwood

The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.

— Natalie Kocsis

I learned to swing on monkey bars over asphalt. I learned that if you fall, it hurts, so you try not to fall. But…

— Tim Cordes

Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made…

— Isaac Rosenberg