“Let’s just sit quietly and listen to the secrets the rain wants to tell us.”
― John Mark Green #kwesiblack #photog #iphonephotography

“My own mind is my own church.”
― Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason #kwesiblack #photog #iphonephotography

“Make your monuments [worthy] of the god, This keeps alive their maker’s name,..”
Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“The date of the trial, Tuesday, 21 February 1804, marked the first time a steam locomotive running on rails hauled a loaded train of freight cars—in this case, about twenty-five tons of engine, iron, wagons, and men.”
― Richard Rhodes, Energy: A Human History #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the horse and the coal-powered locomotive.”
― Daniel Yergin, The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Song by Cyndi Lauper #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7riii

“Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower #kwesiblack #photog #iphonephotography

“On the train I saw that world passing my window. “
― Eudora Welty, On Writing #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“Whenever you are on a train or a car, just look outside the window, and you’ll achieve a state of delight akin to meditation.”
― Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train... ”
― Tom Waits #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“The very fact of snow is such an amazement.”
― Roger Ebert #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty”
― David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.”
― Cambria Hebert, Whiteout #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“You’ll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, ‘What they could do, I can do.’ - Guillaume”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars #kwesiblack #photog #iphonephotography

“The mask of the Winter prince.”
― Julie Kagawa, Iron’s Prophecy #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii #selfportrait

“The snow drifted down and down, all in ghostly silence, and lay thick and unbroken on the ground. It was a place of whites and blacks and greys. White towers and white snow and white statues, black shadows and black trees, the dark grey sky above.” -George R.R. Martin #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.”
― Sir James Jeans #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii #snow❄️

“Against the sky, the stars crown him, marking the edges of his silhouette like he is a constellation of himself.”
― Mackenzi Lee, The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii #selfportrait

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii #snow❄️

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
― Bertrand Russell #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii #snow❄️

“My favorite part of our honeymoon was when Simon dipped me backwards in a passionate kiss on the Ponts des Arts bridge just before we hung a padlock with our initials to the rails, immortalizing our love.”
― B.L. Berry, An Unforgivable Love Story #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii #snow❄️

“No monument was ever erected in favor of a critic.”
― Sravani Saha Nakhro #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii #snow❄️

“...one can’t be out in the cold all the time; one has to come in from the cold...d’you see what I mean?”
― John le Carré, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii #selfportrait

“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace #kwesiblack #photog #iphonephotography

“The city skyline is too important to need to be welcoming. It tells you to get with the program or go home. I love it.”
― Meg Howrey, They’re Going to Love You #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it’s all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“The world is big, the young are restless, and girls just want to have fun.”
― Nicholas Eames, Bloody Rose #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“A little smile, a word of cheer,
A bit of love from someone near,
A little gift from one held dear,
Best wishes for the coming year.

These make a merry christmas!”
― John Greenleaf Whittier #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.”
― Jun’ichirō Tanizaki #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii

“But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov #kwesiblack #photog #sonya7iii #graffitialleytoronto