“and she does find it difficult to believe— that a person would love her even when she isn’t trying. trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.” - robber bride, margaret atwood
“she was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.” - the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde
“but, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the i...
“i knew a woman, lovely in her bones, when small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: the shapes a bright container can contain! of her choice ...
“nothing in the world is harder than speaking the truth and nothing easier than flattery.” - crime and punishment, fyodor dsotoyevsky
aseaofquotes: Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
“everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.” - slaughterhouse five, kurt vonnegut
“your grief is as great as your splendor was:some god is weighing the one out equal to the other.”hekabe, euripides
“the hope was not unmixed with the glow of proud delight— the joyous maiden surprise that she was chosen by the man whom her admiration had chosen.” - middlemarch, george eliot
yesterday a friend started asking me about exercise and nutrition and such sorts. as i was answering her questions (based on my own little knowledge and experience) she said, “you should write ...
“it is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.” - the magician’s elephant, kate dicamillo
“incline my heart to Your testimoniesand not to selfish gain!turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;and give me life in Your ways.”psalm 119:36-37
“if he will kiss me, everything will be all right; i’ll be pretty again.” - celia amberley, victoria london
“few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. there are deep wells of strength that are never used.” - alone, richard e byrd
“if a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. that’s the entire story, and if he doesn’t kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.” - the man of my dream...
“the worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. it’s the loneliness of it. memories need to be shared.” - the giver, lois lowry
“at night i dream that you and i are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain.”excerpt from “rain,” p...
“and it is something, i believe, that people beset by the complexities of modern life will understand instrinctively. we are caught up in the winds that blow every which way. and in the hullabaloo th...
“let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” - hebrews 4:16
“touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells the truth.” - the blind assassin, margaret atwood
“i hope you see things that startle you. i hope you feel things you never felt before. i hope you meet people who have a different point of view. i hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you’re...
“was never true love loved in vain for truest love is highest gain. no art can make it: it must spring where elements are fostering. so in heaven’s spot and hour springs the little native flower; dow...
“he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke— the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. it was love.” - the alchemist, paulo coe...
“i remembered you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know. where were you then? who else was there? saying what? why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when i am sad and f...
“and he sailed off through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are.”where the wild things are, maurice sendak (in memory of maurice sendak)
“and the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that i may lose what i have now, and not find anything except loneliness.” - the unabridged journals of sylvia plath
“the state of her spirits had probably had its share in her indisposition; for she had been feeling neglected, and been struggling against discontent and envy, for some days past … the pain of her mi...
“i love you much (most beautiful darling) more than anyone on the earth and ilike you better than everything in the sky —sunlight and singing welcome your coming although winter may be everywhere wit...
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