“Reading is reading - no matter what the material.”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“Love makes life worth living, not money”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“I had become awkward and tried my best to avoid everyone. I hated attention, people asking me questions or putting me in the spotlight; I preferred to blend into the background unnoticed. I felt safer that way”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“I hope you're enjoying it, though, duck, and not wasting all your time and energy in a thankless job. You've got to make the most of life and not let these little opportunities pass you by. Before you know it you'll be old and wrinkly like me and wishing you'd done more. Just make sure you're happy.”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“The fear of getting close to someone in case they leave me”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“Back at home I spent so much time on my own, but never once felt lonely. Here, even though I see hundreds more people each day, I've never felt lonelier.”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“I think it’s funny how life can lead you down certain paths which you wouldn’t have taken otherwise.”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“I wish I could bottle the feelings of love inside me and save them for a rainy day – to remind myself of their magnitude in those moments of doubt.”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“I have for the first time found what I can truly love – I have found you. You are my sympathy – my better self – my good angel. I am bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“Outside the streets are buzzing with excitement and i'm not a part of it”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
“...You've got to make the most of life and not let these little opportunities pass you by...”
― Giovanna Fletcher, quote from Billy and Me
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“Cody cut into a huge wedge of pie and gave some thought to food--to its inexplicable, loaded meaning in other people's lives. Couldn't you classify a person, he wondered, purely by examining his attitude toward food?”
― Anne Tyler, quote from Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
“The very fact that you can even wonder if you’re going crazy means you very likely aren’t crazy. Real nuts don’t question their own nuttiness. They think they’re the only normal ones. That’s why they’re nuts.”
― Jayne Ann Krentz, quote from Absolutely, Positively
“Thrift is poetic because it is creative.”
― G.K. Chesterton, quote from What's Wrong with the World
“It is the mynd, that maketh good or ill,
That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore:
For some, that hath abundance at his will,
Hath not enough, but wants in greatest store;
And other, that hath litle, askes no more,
But in that litle is both rich and wise.
For wisedome is most riches; fooles therefore
They are, which fortunes doe by vowes deuize,
Sith each vnto himselfe his life may fortunize.”
― Edmund Spenser, quote from The Faerie Queene
“For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the
grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.
Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-grey hair.”
― William Faulkner, quote from A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
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