Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to … - Victoria Finlay

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They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

Victoria Finlay

Once upon a time Apache land would have stretched farther than the horizon, through New Mexico almost to Texas, but as white men found gold, silver, turquoise, and copper beneath its surface they carved up the territory like children sneaking to the fridge and slicing off a chocolate cake bit by bit: hoping at first that the loss wouldn’t be noticed but ultimately not really caring.

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Human life is fragile: we live in the space between one breath and the next. We often try to maintain an illusion of permanence, through what we do, say. . . how we enjoy ourselves. . . Yet it is an illusion that is constantly being undermined by change and death.

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In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own.

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In 1879 the Bengali scholar S. M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily. ’ With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly.

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I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electrolyte is the agency that can help them find each other.

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Funny how we look for miracles in our lives when our life is one big miracle in itself.

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