Downing Quotes (page 189)

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• butterfly
• adventure
• words

Was it just that? She was to be content to weave a steady life with him, all one fabric, but perhaps brocaded with the occasional flower of an adventure. But how could she know what she would feel next year? How could one ever know? How could one say Yes? for years and years? The little yes, gone on a breath! Why should one be pinned down by that butterfly word? Of course it had to flutter away and be gone, to be followed by other yes's and no's! Like the straying of butterflies. David Herbert Lawrence

• kiss
• inside
• effectiveness

The sensation inside me grows warmer and spreads out from my chest down through my body out along my arms and legs to the tips of my being. Instead of satisfying me the kisses have the opposite effect of making my need greater. Suzanne Collins

• experience
• cheer
• go

Hey, Wrobik; cheer up, yeah? You're going to shoot down a fucking starship. It'll be an experience. Iain Banks

• caring
• sometimes
• wall

Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. Socrates

• look
• wellness
• looked

Well, I've been down so Goddamn long, that it looks like up to me. Jim Morrison

• dark
• night
• ups & downs

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down. The dark descent, and up to reascend... John Milton

• best
• friends
• friend

You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down. Paulo Coelho

• love
• understanding
• world

to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down Robert Fulghum

• little
• pretty
• history

There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes. Alan Moore

• angel
• writing
• watch

If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between the image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstance, write it down. Fran Lebowitz

• god
• laughter
• tears

God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust? Sylvia Plath

• happy
• responsibility
• steps

As the Dauphine stepped out of her carriage on to the ceremonial carpet that had been laid down, it was the Duc de Choiseul who was given the privilege of the first salute. Presented with the Duc by Prince Starhemberg, Marie Antoinette exclaimed: 'I shall never forget that you are responsible for my happiness! Antonia Fraser

• thinking
• writing
• people

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down. Stephen King

• life
• to live
• better

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life. Anton Chekhov

• life
• downs
• messy

It's life, and it's messy, and it breaks down. Nora Roberts