Las cosas pasan, Maggie. Lo único que podemos hacer es adaptarnos a las vicisitudes de la vida.
It takes chracter to refuse a man you love more dearly than life merely because marrying him would be the wrong thing to do.
It is the gentleman's job to match his pace and his step to the lady's. men do not have. All the power in the world, you see, despite what women often believe.
I would be more inclined to tell my children the opposite, she said. Stop being fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your exper...
How easy it is to dismiss the outer packaging without an inkling that one is thereby missing the precious beauty within.
He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words reall...
He knew a lot of facts. But ultimately, as always, he must sketch and paint from intuition and trust that it was more true than all the facts he had amassed. Facts missed a great deal. Facts missed wh...
He gazed at her without answering, and his fingers drummed a light tattoo on the table. I need my sketch pad, he said. You should do that more often, Camille.Do what? She could feel her cheeks grow wa...
Had she read any good books lately? At all? She could tell him that she was going to take out a subscription at the library tomorrow because she was feeling starved of good reading material and could...
Gifts were dangerous things, she thought. Sometimes one succeeded only in taking far more than one gave.
For some people, happiness consists in waiting for some disaster to overtake them or the world,
Everything about my life was a lie and remained so until after his death. What I set as my primary goal in life was all a mirage in a vast, empty desert.
Do you believe that sometimes life points out a way for us to follow even if it does not force us into taking that particular path?
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be realized, most to be set aside as time went on, one or two to persist for a l...
Did people... really kiss like that? She had had NO idea. She had imagined being kissed, and in her imagination she had been swept away by the sheer romance of the meeting of lips. In her naivete she...
Besides, how could one apologize for kissing a woman twice? Once might be explained away as an impulsive accident. Twice suggested definite intent or a serious lack of control. His
Awfully? she said, taking his arm to descend the stairs. I am full of awe, he explained.
With a cluster of other servants.
That he really had suffered
You did not grow up in the gutter. Your mother housed you and fed and clothed you. But even if you had, your basic human dignity would not be the less. Why should a king be of more value as a human be...