Tonight seems eons away, but there are these moments.
Una luz moría también en él, cuando ella era infeliz.
Was he a pleasant man hiding behind a mask of seeming carelessness or an unpleasant man hiding behind a mask of charm & smiles? Or like most humans, was he a dizzying mix of contradictory charactersti...
We can never benefit today from the wisdom we will have gained tomorrow.
We women are impractical because we have hearts. Not that men do not, but they feel things differently. They do not feel the suffering around them, or, if they do, they know how to harden their hearts...
When one had once suffered a great hurt, there was always a weakness afterward, a vulnerability where there had been wholeness and strength before - and innocence.
You aren’t intending to spend your married life quarreling, I hope? Claude said, frowning as his brother passed a hand nervously through his hair and turned to the door. I intend to be happy, Lord Fra...
Youthful dreams are precious things. They ought not to be dashed as foolish and unrealistic just because they are young dreams. Innocence ought not to be destroyed from any callous conviction that a r...
Ennui.
Following spring to find himself a
Siempre se disfruta de libertad a menos que estemos encarcelados
When one had taken that first determined step out into the rest of one’s life, one had to keep on striding forward—or retreat and be forever defeated.
After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves.
Ah, but dreams cannot be captured with promises, he said. Like water, they elude our grasp. But water is the staff of life. I believe your dream will come true if only because you will not compromise...
And so he drifted back to London... where he lived a life of increasingly busy idleness as he searched out one diversion after another
Bruce lamented the fact that she had not arrived sooner, when they had really needed her. I came as soon as I had your letter, she said. And I think I was able to do something to cheer the children. I...
But hell need not be eternal unless one chooses to make it so.
But really there was no hurry. It is time to love, he had said downstairs. And time was not always just one second long or even one minute or one hour. Those were artificial divisions, imposed by huma...
But they are good hands, he said, holding them up in the space between them, palms toward her. Slim hands, slender fingers, gold rings on four of them. Three of those fingertips had felled a man and l...
Dreams are wishes that will in all probability never come true. (Sophie)
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