Those Quotes (page 181)

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• women
• aunt
• island

Sourmelina's secret (as Aunt Zo put it): 'Lina was one of those women they named the island after. Jeffrey Eugenides

• work
• study
• achievement

It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work. Paulo Coelho

• impossible
• honorably
• the who

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday. Robert Fulghum

• appearance
• wine
• him

If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear. Rumi

• book
• writing
• perfect

Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary. Jorge Luis Borges

• happenings
• story
• stories

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them. Paul Auster

• thoughts
• door
• earth

Every human being on the face of the earth has a steel plate in his head, but if you lie down now and then and get still as you can, it will slide open like elevator doors, letting in all the secret thoughts that have been standing around so patiently, pushing the button for a ride to the top. The real troubles in life happen when those hidden doors stay closed for too long. Sue Monk Kidd

• hand
• night
• wall

O Jesus, I could be a mule or plow the furrows with my hands if need be or hold those rickety walls up with my back if need be if I knew that somewhere in this world in the pocket of some night I could open my legs to some cowboy lean hips but you are trying to tell me no and O my sweet Jesus what kind of cross is that? Toni Morrison

• my mother
• mother love
• love

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none of the selfless love of my mother. I have none of the plodding, practical love. . . . . I am, to be blunt and concise, in love only with myself, my puny being with its small inadequate breasts and meager, thin talents. I am capable of affection for those who reflect my own world. Sylvia Plath

• betrayal
• betrayed
• betraying

FIDELITY, n. A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed. Ambrose Bierce

• passion
• reflection
• chill

Before Summer RainSuddenly, from all the green around you, something-you don't know what-has disappeared; you feel it creeping closer to the window, in total silence. From the nearby woodyou hear the urgent whistling of a plover, reminding you of someone's Saint Jerome: so much solitude and passion comefrom that one voice, whose fierce request the downpourwill grant. The walls, with their ancient portraits, glideaway from us, cautiously, as thoughthey weren't supposed to hear what we are... Rainer Maria Rilke

• enemy
• world
• dusk

All the mortal world is a lethal enemy during those hours between dawn and dusk. Anne Rice

• madness
• adviser
• whom

There are those to whom one must advise madness. Joseph Joubert

• eyes
• alone
• mindfulness

Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself. Haruki Murakami

• time
• doubt
• long

doubt is the privilege of those who have lived a long time, Jose Saramago