“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
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“Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, quote from The House of the Dead
“a cloudy cocktail called Smoke, made by mixing water and fuel alcohol. Smoke joints were tucked into the back of paint stores, drugstores, and markets, among the dry goods and the stacked cans.”
― Deborah Blum, quote from The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
“Small changes can make huge destination differences.”
― Sean Covey, quote from The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens
“She looked pretty lively for a girl obsessed with death. ”
― Marlene Perez, quote from Dead Is the New Black
“At the same time he could hardly believe what he had been reading. It struck him as verging on madness. This wild confession, this owing to a crime so outlandish, so totally different from the true ones of mating and theft of the negroes, outraged him with its insolence and perversity. In the conflict of these feelings Erasmus was swept by doubt and loneliness. His whole being seemed under threat of dissolution. What became of law, of legitimacy, of established order, if a man could assume such attitudes of private morality, decide for himself where his fault lay? It turned everything upside down. He could think of nothing more damnable. And yet… He remembered suddenly the second, rarer smile his cousin had, the one that came slowly, transforming his face. Briefly, unwillingly, Erasmus glimpsed the possibility of freedom.”
― Barry Unsworth, quote from Sacred Hunger
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