“We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.”
Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees
Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
“Behind the stream of my mind and body, behind the stream of my race and all mankind, behind the stream of plants and animals, I watch with trembling the Invisible, treading on all visible things and ascending.
Behind his heavy and blood-splattered feet I hear all living things being trampled on and crushed.
His face is without laughter, dark and silent, beyond joy and sorrow, beyond hope.”
— Nikos Kazantzakis, book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
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