Elizabeth Knox quotes

“The thought of flight has melted me, I am less solid than liquid, then I'm going up and going invisible like steam.”
-- Elizabeth Knox

Source : Elizabeth Knox (2014). “The Vintner's Luck”, p.187, Victoria University Press

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“Happiness had never been like this before. Now it came like sun showers, the sun and the rain together. Happiness was happier than it had been - sharp, piercing, and snatched, like a breath while swimming in surf.”
-- Elizabeth Knox

Source : Elizabeth Knox (2014). “Dreamhunter: Book One of the Dreamhunter Duet”, p.260, Macmillan

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“I've had weight issues all my life. I've been on all the diets: Atkins, liquid protein, Scarsdale diet. Now I go to the gym often. I'm always on the StairMaster, and I do weights.”

“Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.”

Source : Irving Penn, Virginia Heckert, Anne Lacoste, J. Paul Getty Museum (2009). “Irving Penn: Small Trades”, p.18, Getty Publications

“L'alcool est le monarque des liquides, et porte au dernier degre   l'exaltation palatale. Alcohol is the prince of liquids, and carries the palate to its highest pitch of exaltation.”

“And most of these pilots were lost during the first five flights.”

“You've done it in the simulator so many times, you don't have a real sense of being excited when the flight is going on. You're excited before, but as soon as the liftoff occurs, you are busy doing what you have to do.”

“Nothing can prevent us from another day and night, and the myth of perpetual flight.”

Source : "Solar-powered plane lands safely after 26-hour flight". www.bbc.com. July 8, 2010.

“Loves and Cupids took to flight afraid, and Martyrdom had no such torment in its painted history of suffering.”

“I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator”

“I like mainly to be invisible, to sort of drift around unseen in the world.”

“When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.”