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Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice? Douglas Adams
Gilles Deleuze quote: "The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been..."
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering. Gilles Deleuze
Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had. Margaret Atwood
Ayn Rand quote: "The leaves had edges of silver that trembled and rippled like..."
The leaves had edges of silver that trembled and rippled like a river of green and fire flowing high above us. Ayn Rand
Anne Rivers Siddons quote: "Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water."
Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water. Anne Rivers Siddons
Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow. John Stuart Mill
«…you’re too old not to have had, how shall I say, certain experiences. You’ve had bad internet dates. You’ve had people be creeps to you. You’ve seen what you’ve seen; you’ve felt what you’ve felt. Ideology is for people who don’t trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world» « I feel like I am going mad» « Madness is actually quite rare in individuals. It’s groups of people who go mad. Countries, cults ... religions» Doug Coupland
Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without... Rainer Maria Rilke
There are many good inventions on earth, some useful, some pleasing: for their sake, the earth is to be loved. And there is such a variety of well-invented things that the earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing. Friedrich Nietzsche
But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after - oh, that's love by a different name. She is the babe you hold in your arms for an hour after she's gone to sleep. If you put her down in the crib, she might wake up changed and fly away. So instead you rock my the window, drinking the light from her skin, breathing her exhaled dreams. Your heart bays to the double crescent moons of closed lashes on her... Barbara Kingsolver
Stephen King quote: "There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids."
There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids. Stephen King
Jennifer Love Hewitt quote: "If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with..."
If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us. Jennifer Love Hewitt
Honore de Balzac quote: "We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes..."
We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked. Honore de Balzac
Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the hand that bears it is heavier. When it is thrown, the circuits of the stars respond, and where it strikes or falls the universe is changed. Ursula K. Le Guin
Herman Hesse quote: "Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal,..."
Were not the gods forms created like me and you, mortal, transient? Herman Hesse

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