Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this.
– Donna Tartt
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- Sing, boy! sing! The ages are waiting for you. Sing! sing! All the world will hear you. God knows what will come of it. – Charles Carleton Coffin
- And I want to be with you till the birds forget how to fly in the blue azure sky and the fish forget how to swim in the blue green sea… – Avijeet Das
- Everyone basically has one aria to sing over their entire life. – Donna Tartt
- When the world becomes peaceful for the birds, the birds will sing a harmonious chorale – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay. – SW Lothian
- I am going to sing for you, a little off key perhaps, but I will sing. I will sing while you croak, I will dance over your dirty corpse. – Henry Miller
- Sing to your mountains because as you sing, they are being cast into the sea.As you sing, the portals of heaven are opening. – Sherry K White
- People who swim very well in troubled waters are respected and celebrated than those who swim excellently in calm waters. – Israelmore Ayivor
- The most risky day in the world will be the day the bird will decide to swim and the fish will decide to fly. Stay glued to what you can do. – Israelmore Ayivor
- To learn how to swim, observe fish; how to hunt, observe lions; how to work, observe bees, and how to live, observe sages. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Fish cannot swim out of water. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- All women live in sexual objectification the way fish swim in water. – Nussbaum
- …all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull … – John Geddes
- When you are learning swimming, try to swim like a fish! Target the best so that you can always easily reach good and better! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Great fish do not swim in small rivers. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- There are many fish in the sea, but never let a good one swim away. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A different and much deeper sort of beauty altogether. The thing and yet not the thing. – Donna Tartt
- …as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch. – Donna Tartt
- That surge of power and delight, of confidence, of control. That sudden sense of the richness of the world. Its infinite possibility. – Donna Tartt
- It was like waking from a nightmare to a worse nightmare. – Donna Tartt
- their reality was far more interesting than any idealized version could possibly be – Donna Tartt
- It seems to me that psychology is only another word for what the ancients called fate. – Donna Tartt
- What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue? – Donna Tartt
- Fate is cruel but maybe not random. Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and gravel to it. – Donna Tartt
- When we are sad…it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to things that don’t change. – Donna Tartt
- …with a grief no less sharp for not being intimate with its object. – Donna Tartt
- When we are sad-”at least I am like this-”it can be comforting to cling to familiar objects, to the things that don’t change. – Donna Tartt
- He looked very tired, a regard which manifested itself not in dark circles, or pallor, but a dreamy and bright-cheeked sadness. – Donna Tartt
- …not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. – Donna Tartt
- I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture. – Donna Tartt
- . . . is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name? – Donna Tartt
- The most satisfying of languages, Latin. – Donna Tartt
- It was a clear, black morning, encrusted with stars. – Donna Tartt
- I suppose there is a certain crucial interval in everyone’s life when character is fixed forever. – Donna Tartt
- Maybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found? – Donna Tartt
- It’s a long story. I’ll make it short as I can. – Donna Tartt
- The idea of losing control is one that fascinates controlled people such as ourselves more than almost anything. – Donna Tartt
- Asparagus is in season. – Donna Tartt
- I think this goes more to the idea of ‘relentless irony’ than ‘divine providence. – Donna Tartt
- Mais, vrai, J’ai trop pleure! Les aubes sont navrantes. What a sad and beautiful line that is. I’d always hoped that someday I’d be able to use it. – Donna Tartt