#softly

Mira sat down on the rim of the fountain. The marble ledge was damp, and mist sprinkled her skin. Coins shimmered under the water like fish scales. She counted them, each one a wish, and wondered how love could be anything but good. ↗

— Sarah Cross

#kill-me-softly #mira #love

A naked blade hid nothing, feared nothing. She wanted to be like that. Because that was how you found yourself, created yourself. You didn't hide. You didn't wait for the perfect moment to settle on you like a butterfly, like magic. You went out and made magic. Made your own wishes come true. ↗

— Sarah Cross

#bravery #fear #kill-me-softly #sarah-cross #bravery

One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'. ↗

— Carla Bley

#art #band #better #blues #could

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#happens #how #i #i love #learned

I praise loudly. I blame softly. ↗

— Catherine the Great

#i #loudly #praise #softly

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end. ↗

— Pope John XXIII

#am #death #end #follow #i

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to. ↗

— Donald Justice

#close #coming #doors #forty #learn

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#dreams #softly #tread #you

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#being #dreams #feet #i #only

I'm swimming," Caspian announced. "Sort of. Do you think that will interfere with my mermaid search? If I fall into the ocean and I'm not drowning, do you think she'll bother to save me?" "I think your mermaid probably has a life," Wills said..."You can't count on her to be waiting around for you every day. So drowning on purpose makes you an idiot. ↗

— Sarah Cross

#kill-me-softly #mermaid #mermaids #sarah-cross #wills