Having Quotes (page 952)

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• letting go
• hard
• evening

Even in merely reading a fairytale, we must let go our daylight convictions and trust ourselves to be guided by dark figures, in silence; and when we come back, it may be very hard to describe where we have been. Ursula K. Le Guin

• life
• camera
• caps

If life were a camera, I'd have the lens cap on. Charles M. Schulz

• sliced
• her
• slice

A slice of spumoni wouldn't have melted on her now. Raymond Chandler

• mother
• lifetime
• could

You count the hours you could have spent with your mother. It's a lifetime in itself. Mitch Albom

• respect
• bad
• presented

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect. Thomas Hardy

• hard
• wife
• new

There's always something to do if you don't have to work or consider the cost. It's no real fun but the rich don't know that. They never had any. They never want anything very hard except maybe somebody else's wife and that's a pretty pale desire compared with the way a plumber's wife wants new curtains for the living room. Raymond Chandler

• jazz
• asked
• dude

What is Jazz? Dude, if you have to ask, you'll never know. Louis Armstrong

• library
• help
• lost

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who’d lost their way, the ones who’d lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel. Alice Hoffman

• queen
• moments
• imagination

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen. Victor Hugo

• star
• stars
• becoming

However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was. Johnny Cash

• mother
• choices
• mother child

I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head."A child should never have to choose. Mitch Albom

• because i can
• needing
• needs

I don't wanna need you because I can't have you. Clint Eastwood

• lost
• die
• reality

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. Thornton Wilder

• value
• rich
• labouring

The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. Oscar Wilde

• life
• nature
• about life

The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it. Virginia Woolf