Kathleen Norris - Day Quotes

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[The] very hot day... was like a last flaming hand-clasp from the departing summer.

Kathleen Norris

The clearing-house of the brain, the wings of the spirit, books lift us away from the petty, crowded day's smallness and entanglement.

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Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

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If, at the end of the saddest, the most disappointing and hurtful day, each one of us may come to a quiet room somewhere, and that room his own, if there is a light burning above white pillows, and a pile of books waiting under the light, then indeed we may still praise Allah, that He has not terminated all the Delights.

Kathleen Norris

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

Kathleen Norris