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Peter
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Soft white billowed about the surface, blowing gently against the windowsill in remembrance of the enigmatic swan’s graceful flight. Or so it reminded me, alluringly tranquil in its flicker of light and form, but not quite translucent. Not quite here.”
“For a moment, I was safe, wrapped in a blue-hued embrace.”
“Emeralds of the lake sparkled luxuriously, dancing as beckoning figures of the night sky, as the sun began to descend, turning the ripples into opals of many hues.”
“And in it she found a stillness and peace, a beauty that gently wrapped up the unraveled ends and lost questions and unresolved threads of life’s journey. In it, she found the entirety, the end, the beginning, and the moments in between, the essence of all she was and had ever been, and all the world was and had ever been.”
“A sash of iridescent butterflies fluttered across in remnants of topaz, dipped in distant peacock’s tears as they mingled with forget-me-nots and morning glories, bluebells and cornflowers spilling through the cerulean waters in the flight of an Eastern bluebird. It was no longer solid, but a creature now made of those same prismatic tears it had once touched, too refined and elegant to lose its path even as it faded away.”
“Wisps of clouds scattered across the heavens, as if brought to their place by a great sigh.”
“There are walks of pain—the pacing-around-your-house-lonesome-heartbreak kind. There are walks of joy—leaping and bold, ecstatic with good news. There are walks of new beginnings—the first steps of a child or a young woman learning to become like a child again. And there are hornets’ nests of walks that sting you with living terror.”
“The great Rocky Mountains, softly shaded in gray, were submerged in a sea of fluffy white clouds, feathery wisps enveloping the peaks like a kingdom of the air.”
“Sunken yellow lurched in a mindfield of black twisted cylinders, falling like poisoned honey across my vision. It cleared, and became a series of flashing images, jagged edges of memories, each more beautiful and terrible than the last, playing across the screen of blackened cement.”
“Sometimes there are moments colored in shades that glimmer like soft silver light Like a poem, they bid us on. Their direction unknown, but clear Sometimes the color is only dirty gray, ugly, coarse, unrefined But it propels us forward, Because, without it, the silver will not stand.”
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