Quotes About Absorption

A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.

you cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. For me. Matilda, Great Expectations is such a book. It gave me permission to change my life.

But you know, Matilda, you cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames. For me, Matilda, Great Expectations is such a book. It gave me permission to change my life.

Faced with an excess of beauty the mind can often only drink.

the natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me.

I began walking at your age just because the natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me.

Interestingly, one notable way of restoring soil is the planting of cannabis or hemp, which absorbs more CO2 than any other tree, shrub, or plant known to man. But growing cannabis remains illegal in the United States. Rattan

Urge to come to terms with the Outside, by absorbing, interiorizing it. I won't come out, you must come in to me. Into my womb-garden where I peer out. Where I can construct a universe within the skull, to rival the real.

A manhã é uma esponja.

Only the very young and the very old may recount their dreams at breakfast, dwell upon self, interrupt with memories of beach picnics and favorite Liberty lawn dresses and the rainbow trout in a creek near Colorado Springs. The rest of us are expected, rightly, to affect absorption in other people's favorite dresses, other people's trout.

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

The best way I've found of understanding this is to think not so much of something "being" a color but of it "doing" a color.

If the word of God is not absorbed by the mind through understanding, it is likely to be lost, like how a dream may slip away after one wakes up in the morning. It can be as if the person has never heard God's word at all.

Entonces nos sentamos juntas, en silencio, sin implicarnos la una con la otra, solo dos mujeres que escrutan la oscuridad de toda esa vida perdida. Mi madre no parece ni joven ni vieja, solo profundamente absorta por lo terrible de lo que ve ante sí. Y yo no sé qué soy a sus ojos.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

A fairy tale...on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must be for him no other.

I always loved having the chance to disappear in a story. I always was kind of obsessed with that.

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

If you read a novel in more than two weeks you don't read the novel really.

Under the auspices of Just Folks—described by Lindbergh's newly created Office of American Absorption as "a volunteer work program introducing city youth to the traditional ways of heartland life"—my brother left on the last day of June 1941 for a summer "apprenticeship" with a Kentucky tobacco farmer.

The great thing is to be always reading but never to get bored—treat it not like work, more as a vice!

Oh, I find whatever you do a source of perpetual fascination.

ora, in condizioni patologiche non è raro che la carta, secreto aziendale, venga riassorbita in misura eccessiva, e addormenti, paralizzi, o addirittura uccida l'organismo da cui è stata essudata