"Although the deepest of snow in living memory lay upon the ground, the sun was shining and Aurelia breathed easiest out of doors. The four walls of any given room could not give her the horizons she longed for - horizons she could measure with her eyes and strive to conquer with her own two legs. She was like a wild animal, Cook always said."

Tracy Rees
Kommentare 0
Noch keine Kommentare

Sei der Erste, der seine Gedanken teilt!

Bitte logge dich ein, um mitzudiskutieren.

Das könnte dir auch gefallen

"Independence' is a magic word, because nowhere in the Cosmos does it actually exist."
Gabriel Brunsdon
"The ocean was the best place, of course. That was what she loved most. It was a feeling of freedom like no other, and yet a feeling of communion with all the other places and creatures the water touched."
Ann Brashares
"Tomorrow's freedom is today's surrender."
Sons and Daughters
"On the one hand, she is cut off from the protection awarded to her sisters abroad; on the other, she has no such power to defend her interests at the polls, as is the heritage of her brothers at home."
Florence Kelley
"The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count."
Holly Near
"Anarchy is against the law."
Graffiti
"We believe that government in Britain is there to protect people from terrorism and from the worst criminality, but never at the expense of our civil liberties and the basic tenets of our legal system."
Charles Kennedy
"California is a bellwether state. California was the first state in the United States to overturn the laws against interracial marriage. It took 19 years for the rest of the country to come around to that point of view."
Gavin Newsom
"I am not a Federalist,” he declared in 1789, “because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever.… If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all."
Joseph J. Ellis
"Stephen Hawking says we will not survive another 1,000 years without escaping beyond our planet. This existence problem can be solved by increasing the number of people with free-minds! Because just like the free birds only the free minds can reach the new horizons!"
Anonymous
"They had supported him ... For freedom's sake, they would have said; meaning as do all men who mouth that catchword, freedom for themselves and their own class."
Margaret Butler
"All people are enslaved by something."
Dejan Stojanovic
"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object."
Thomas Jefferson
"We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know our one great task: watch for whatever promises us freedom, and then quietly, consciously refuse to see ourselves through the eyes of what we know is incomplete. Then we live wholeness itself, instead of spending our lives looking for it."
Guy Finley
"Free yourself of any load which impedes you."
Charmaine J Forde