Xavier Saer · 299 pages
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“The battlefield of owning your dreams is won the moment you decide to conquer your fears.”
― Xavier Saer, quote from Bleeding Heart (A Timeless Fable About Living Life With Passion)
“Whatever path you chose, make sure it has a heart.”
― Xavier Saer, quote from Bleeding Heart (A Timeless Fable About Living Life With Passion)
“The biggest blessings are often disguised in the shape of tears.”
― Xavier Saer, quote from Bleeding Heart (A Timeless Fable About Living Life With Passion)
“We’re not afraid of flying; only afraid of the altitude we might reach.”
― Xavier Saer, quote from Bleeding Heart (A Timeless Fable About Living Life With Passion)
“Watch what you're thinking and you might just find what comes into your life.”
― Xavier Saer, quote from Bleeding Heart (A Timeless Fable About Living Life With Passion)
“In Floral Heights and the other prosperous sections of Zenith, especially in the “young married set,” there were many women who had nothing to do. Though they had few servants, yet with gas stoves, electric ranges and dish-washers and vacuum cleaners, and tiled kitchen walls, their houses were so convenient that they had little housework, and much of their food came from bakeries and delicatessens. They had but two, one, or no children; and despite the myth that the Great War had made work respectable, their husbands objected to their “wasting time and getting a lot of crank ideas” in unpaid social work, and still more to their causing a rumor, by earning money, that they were not adequately supported. They worked perhaps two hours a day, and the rest of the time they ate chocolates, went to the motion-pictures, went window-shopping, went in gossiping twos and threes to card-parties, read magazines, thought timorously of the lovers who never appeared, and accumulated a splendid restlessness which they got rid of by nagging their husbands. The husbands nagged back.”
― Sinclair Lewis, quote from Babbitt
“There is evil fuckery afoot here.”
― Georgia Cates, quote from Beauty from Pain
“But there was no use. There was no point. It was just a story. It was just a story of people, of Ralph and Emilia and Antonio and Catherine and the mothers and the fathers who had died, too soon or late, of people who had hurt one another as much as people can do, who had been selfish and not wise, and had become trapped inside the bitter walls of memories they wished they had never had. It”
― Robert Goolrick, quote from A Reliable Wife
“...quando perdi qualcuno e questo qualcuno ti manca, tu soffri perché la persona assente si è trasformata in un essere immaginario: irreale. Ma il tuo desiderio di lei non è immaginario. Così è a quello che devi aggrapparti: al desiderio. Perché è reale.”
― Jonathan Coe, quote from The House of Sleep
“If you did not want much, there was plenty.”
― Harper Lee, quote from Go Set a Watchman
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