Ambush Quote by Anne D. LeClaire Download Open image ““That was the cruelty of memory. The way it could ambush you.”” — Anne D. LeClaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambush Cruelty Cruelty Memory Memory Memory Way Way Ambush
“...memory could save, that it had power, that it was often the only recourse of the powerless, the oppressed, or the brutalized.” — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
“I know. You can be fine, and then, out of nowhere, a memory blindsides you.” — Lisa Schroeder Copy Share Image
“...you lifted the veil when you admitted you had no memory of that day - it was so special and your lack of recall… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Nothing ever really escapes memory, and even the things we forget often are condemned to it.” — Michael W. Twitty Copy Share Image
“...and the worse the memory, the stronger its stranglehold on the present.” — Eliza Granville Copy Share Image
“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I never stopped to think of it… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“To hell with memory. It was like feeling around in basket of apples only to be confronted by a snake.” — Selma Dabbagh Copy Share Image
“Silence, along with the attention it fosters, is our anchor to the present, to the here and now.” — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“Every day is ordinary. Until it isn’t. On this early-October morning, the townspeople in Port Fortune wake before dawn to an ordinary day with… — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“How would the world change, Father Gervase wondered, if one could look for and see goodness, whatever human guise it was cloaked in, if… — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“How often do we offer advice when what is really required is a compassionate ear?” — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“Or reading poetry. Now there was a job that should exist. To spend one’s days in the company of Blake and Dickinson, Yeats and… — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“The cure for everything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.” — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“Our spiritual journey is—or ought to be—a deepening realization of the possibility of sainthood in all of us.” — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“I wondered if in even the strongest of marriages there always existed a fault line and it just took one major, earth-shattering disaster to… — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“It is not the burdens and resentments we pick up that keep us derailed, but our continuing to tote them.” — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“In the field of memory, land mines were buried everywhere, easily tripped.” — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion. A filling up.” — Anne D. LeClaire Copy Share Image
“You can easily discern whether someone is truly interested to learn & know when s/he asks you or cornering and ambushing you to stumble...” — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love. It” — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. — Samuel Garth Copy Share Image
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We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
The only rule Muslims know is to win. It does not matter how. All rules can be broken as long as they win the… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
A wealthy traveller fears an ambush, while one with empty pockets journeys on in safety. — Ovid Copy Share Image
She is a mortal danger to all men. She is beautiful without knowing it, and possesses charms that she's not even aware of. She… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. — Elliott Chaze Copy Share Image
“He's prowling back and forth like a lion with distemper now. There's a shiny streak down one side of his face. "I shouldn't have… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image