Ruminations Quote by Brandi L. Bates Download Open image ““The sky is a tight gray sheet of Baroque prose pulled snug”” — Brandi L. Bates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ruminations Writing
“There, up in the sky, she noticed for the first time a gigantic mounded cloud, as large and elaborately moulded as a baroque opera… — Rachel Ingalls Copy Share Image
“Wind as old as Rome outside my window, inky fleece clouds against charcoal crushed velvet skies, fall feels soulful, like a LaBelle octave.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“Consider, O Lord, how You sit atop the sky; like a man in a glass bottom boat. Consider sky elsewhere; worn thin as a… — Cecilia Llompart Copy Share Image
“The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.” — Scarlett Thomas Copy Share Image
“Maybe I should stare at the sky more often. Maybe I should enjoy the night air instead of shielding myself from it from. Rather… — Marni Mann Copy Share Image
“Gigantic clouds drift across the sky, blotting out the sun. The air is as dark as my heart.” — Jen Minkman Copy Share Image
“The stars have us to bed: Night draws the curtain; which the sun withdraws. Music” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Raw Living: Picking blackberries, beneath late afternoon sun; a sunset reminiscent of watermelon sangria, as the scent of honeysuckle accosts me and the ducks… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“I don't want to be around people who accept me as is, in my unrefined state of becoming. I consistently want people around me… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“Remember to remember: sometimes your adversary is your biggest asset. Where would David be without Goliath? Jesus without Judas?” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“On Slavery: The saddest slap in the face is we have NO monument, no real statues or memorials, no special day of Atonement or Remembrance (NOT ONE), no thanks for 400+ years of free labor, forced servitude across the Trans-Atlantic, ass beatings, buying ourselves and families out of slavery, rape and plunder...but everyone else has monuments, special museums, and even… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share
“Whatever it is you want in this life, be it material things, a place you want to be, or an experience you want to… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“All things grow, flourish, die, and re-grow. Life and death are continuous and fluid. Like the Sun and the Moon which die and are… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“THE NEXT DAY WAS RAIN-SOAKED and smelled of thick sweet caramel, warm coconut and ginger. A nearby bakery fanned its daily offerings. A lapis lazuli sky was blanketed by gunmetal gray clouds as it wept crocodile tears across the parched Los Angeles landscape. When Ivy was a child and she overheard adults talking about their break-ups, in her young feeble-formed… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share
“His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea...” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“Sometimes transitional periods in life leave you feeling like a great big jumble of loose, split ends.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“If Vorbis was right, and there was a kind of light that made darkness visible, then down there was its opposite, the darkness where… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
