The constellation she’s named after tells the story of a princess, who was shackled to a rock as a sacrifice to a sea monster–punishment for her mother Casseopeia, who had bragged to Poseidon about her own beauty. Perseus, flying by, fell in love with Andromeda and saved her. In the sky, she’s pictured with her arms outstretched and her hands chained (Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper)
We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time. (Joseph Bottum)
People will come and go, so enjoy your seasons of friendship (Mary Buchan, Over iT)
Don’t you think, that there are very few men who know, without raising their voice or changing their tone, to say…what has to be said? – Colette
No one is satisfied with his fortune or dissatisfied with his intellect (Antoinette Deshouliere)
Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. (Mike Myers)
You are the love, the lover, and the beloved (Debasish Mridha)
Its not easy to steer life without errors – at times forced by propensity
Love, Hope, and Reverence are realities of a different order from the senses, but they are positive and constant facts, always active, always working out mighty changes in human life (Elizabeth Blackwell)
Silence is a powerful tool (Na, I’ll Be Seeing You)