Falling Quotes

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One boy's footprints are not long in being lost in the snow, in the steadily falling snow of the shortest day, the longest night; they… — HalldÃ³r Laxness
He stepped colser. Looked deep into my eyes. Hesitated a millisecond, and then dove in. "I think I'm falling in love with you." Oh. No.… — Jennifer Rardin
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by… — Gustave Flaubert
On the outside, Oscar simply looked tired, no taller, no fatter, only the skin under his eyes, pouched from years of quiet desperation, had changed.… — Junot Diaz
Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just… — Mario Puzo
If you are falling....dive. — Joseph Campbell
Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst… — Joseph Addison
I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a… — Anne Frank
...the habit of falling hardens the body, reaching the ground, to in itself, is a relief. — Jose Saramago
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than… — Charles Dickens
The cloud is free only to go with the wind. The rain is free only in falling. — Wendell Berry
Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a… — Zadie Smith
Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling. — Darin Strauss
Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape. — Terry Pratchett
Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these… — James F. Cooper
Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common sense. That's what it was like for me.… — Nicholas Sparks
Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of… — Shel Silverstein
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. — Jonathan Franzen
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty… — Wallace Stevens
I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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