#fled

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#buildings #dusty #east #fallen #fled

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#buildings #dusty #east #fallen #fled

One expected growth, change; without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#dried #expected #fled #growth #inspiration

I had a million questions to ask God: but when I met Him, they all fled my mind; and it didn't seem to matter. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#fled #god #had #him #i

I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved. ↗

— Gary Oldman

#brought #child #fled #i #loved

Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#fled #form #into #liberal #novels

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch ↗

— J.A. Huss

#fledge #flight #i-am-just-junco #j-a-huss #science-fiction

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again. ↗

— Robert Browning

#baffled #begin #dry #eyes #fail