We sighted people are often neglectful of the power of sound.
Was something worth having, though, if it didn't present a challenge?
There is no such place as the promised land, but it would be foolish to reject even an unpromised land as worthless without first inspecting it thoroughly.
The only thing over which we have any control whatsoever is the very next decision we make.
Since when had shabby men started to look impossibly attractive when immaculately tailored ones merely looked ... well, immaculately tailored? Though it was not shabby exactly, was it, but a certain...
She had never believed in fate. She still did not. It would be nonsense of freedom of will and choice, and it was through such freedom that we worked our way through life and learned what we needed to...
She did not move, and now she was the Amazon as well as the schoolmistress. She really was a disconcerting female.
Rapists do not deserve to live. And
Love wasn’t about reasons. It wasn’t about admiring fine qualities. Love was a language all on its own, composed of gestures that seemed incomprehensible, perhaps even pointless, to the outside observ...
Love does not involve emotions, then? he asked her with a smile.It is not ruled by them, she told him. Love is liking and companionship and respect and trust. Love does not dominate or try to possess....
Little people are often more fierce than their larger counterparts[...]
Leave love to take its course.
Las mentiras solo acarreaban sufrimiento.
It was delicate and pretty and always semifashionable because it had never been ultrafashionable.
It sounded very shallow put that way.Did it matter? Sometimes the human spirit needed the shallows. Sunshine danced on the shallows but was absorbed beyond trace by the depths.
It is a dreary world out there. It makes one thankful after all to be indoors with a fire burning in the hearth.
If I had smiled and fawned over you at Lady Mannering’s ball, she said, and if I had simpered and giggled during the drive in Hyde Park, you would have lost interest in me in a moment, Lord Ravensberg...
I do not want to drain all your light, Percy, she said.Something sparked in his eyes.But there is never an end to light, Imogen, he told her, or to love. I'll fill you so full of light that you will g...
I can see why men do not take up knitting and such. They would never be able to pluck up the courage to go and get what they needed.
Have you noticed, she asked him, how standing still can sometimes be no different from moving backward? For the whole world moves on and leaves one behind.