How odd it is that we so often weep for each other’s distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own! – Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little. You’ve done well, and honourably
The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little. You’ve done well, and honourably (M. J. Carter)
Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.””And everything awful used to be something good
Everything good in New York used to be something awful, I guess.””And everything awful used to be something good (Brian K. Vaughan, Ex Machina, Vol. 1: The First Hundred Days)
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself. (Karen Blixen)
When we are down there, if we are parted, come and find me again,” said Keedra
When we are down there, if we are parted, come and find me again,” said Keedra (Philip Dodd, Angel War)
I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak
I do listen. I just wait for the words to stop and your eyes to speak (Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons)
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves
Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it’s good to capture people when they are themselves (Patrick Demarchelier)
I want to grow old without facelifts… I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you
I want to grow old without facelifts… I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you (Marilyn Monroe)
The natural flow of discourse must be calm and serene; if wit, whim, fun and fire are present, they will not fail to flash brightly along its surface; but they can never constitute the main body of the stream itself
The natural flow of discourse must be calm and serene; if wit, whim, fun and fire are present, they will not fail to flash brightly along its surface; but they can never constitute the main body of the stream itself (Arthur Martine, Martine’s Hand-Book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness)
Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven
Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven (Anne Sexton)