Wilson saw her standing under the big tree, looking pretty rather than beautiful in her faintly rosy khaki. - Hemingway

“The most chaste, elegant and forcible words in the language poured from her lips like a stream of liquid fire, and her eyes sparkled with animation, her graceful form swayed to and fro, and her taper fingers moved through the air in unison with her burning words.” on Laura de Force Gordon

On Wednesday night, as they did every Wednesday, the parents went to the movies. The boys, lords and masters of the house, closed the doors and windows and broke the glowing bulb in one of the living room lamps. A jet of golden light as cool as water began to pour out of the broken bulb, and they let it run to a depth of almost three feet. Then they turned off the electricity, took out the rowboat, and navigated at will among the islands in the house. - Gabriel García Marquez

Each moment is a leap forward from the brink of an invisible cliff, where time’s keen edges are constantly renewed. We lift our foot from the solid ground of all our life lived thus far and take that perilous step out into the empty air.