“We can’t hold onto things. Time is like the river. It carries us off, and faster than we would like, most often.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“But love is not comprised of words, pretty though they are to hear. It is comprised of the choices you make in every moment.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“It is extraordinary how the human mind sees what it anticipates and is blind to anything that could not be dreamed of.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“It was the kind of day that glittered and beckoned like a foretaste of heaven. The snow no longer fell, but lay thick and silver-white on the ground. The sun dazzled and the sky was a rich, celestial blue. On such a day as this, the whole world might change.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“The wind whispered secrets in its own incomprehensible language.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“It is intention and orientation of the heart [...] that matters most.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“Disseminating knowledge is the human duty, sharing it about so that all can benefit.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“Spring is not yet here, but the song of a solitary, pioneering blackbird when I wake, the smell of something warm and floral on the air in fleeting moments, these signs give me hope.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“Thank you, I am well, certainly, and I have found more happiness in the last months than I ever hoped I might.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“But the beauty of impossible dreams is that they are impossible- the hows and whens don't really matter.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“become great friends with Grandmother.’ Mrs Nesbitt informs me, in her sweet, winsome way, that it is extremely important for a woman in her position to have her own life and her own circle of friends. She would not, she adds, be averse to marrying again.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“Sentirmi ripetere ancora una volta che non posso è qualcosa che non riesco più a sopportare.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“you. It kept her so busy while she was here. The”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“You find your refuge in conventions and tell yourself that the bargains you have struck are morally sound, because they are socially sanctioned. Only the weak require such a refuge.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“Le dee non hanno il cuore malato.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“as though reading my mind. ‘Everything different”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“ultimate demonstration of Constance’s taste for the”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“that. I had a fever upon me to grab any opportunity that came my way and consequences be damned. But there was another reason for my fervent resolve – one that I have never told you. I shall do so now.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“Like Aurelia, he is a lover of humanity in all its quirks and foibles, quick to delight and slow to judge.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“At last an energetic reel defeats me. I cannot keep”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“determined set to his chin . . . all so”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“Although the deepest of snow in living memory lay upon the ground, the sun was shining and Aurelia breathed easiest out of doors. The four walls of any given room could not give her the horizons she longed for - horizons she could measure with her eyes and strive to conquer with her own two legs. She was like a wild animal, Cook always said.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“familiar; she must be a neighbour of the Wisters, I muse, as Mrs Nesbitt runs on: ‘There is her sister Meribelle, never married. Unsurprising. She’s a dear girl but has the gift of”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“believes, and you implied, that I am a . . . I am a .”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
“Ciascuno di noi è unico, e amare qualcuno significa amare tutte le piccole cose di cui è composto.”
― Tracy Rees, quote from Amy Snow
Tracy Rees
Born place: Mountain Ash, South Wales, The United Kingdom
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“And that's how things are. A day is like a whole life. You start out doing one thing, but end up doing something else, plan to run an errand, but never get there. . . . And at the end of your life, your whole existence has the same haphazard quality, too. Your whole life has the same shape as a single day.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Jurassic Park
“Heil Hitler," he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon.”
― John Boyne, quote from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and Lúthien”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Silmarillion
“The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it”
― Kurt Vonnegut, quote from Cat's Cradle
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― Agatha Christie, quote from Murder on the Orient Express
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