“...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“I BELIEVE IN DESTINY, IN FATE, IN THE MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE.
I BELIEVE WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER LOVE.
EITHER IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OR IT'S NOT..”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“He hadn't lost Grace. Because she'd never been his to lose in the first place.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“Being single isn't a terminal disease."
"Try telling that to my mother.”
― Alexandra Potter, quote from Do You Come Here Often?
“Fenworth!'
Yes?'
You bore me with your prattle.'
Oh, regrettable that. Why don't you seek the company of someone who doesn't prattle? Seems like a good solution to your problem.”
― Donita K. Paul, quote from DragonSpell
“We all have such stories. It is a brutal arithmetic. But I - I am alive. You are alive. As long as we breathe, we can see and hear. As long as we can remember, all those gone before are alive inside us.”
― Jane Yolen, quote from The Devil's Arithmetic
“§10 . . . Such minds, when they give themselves up to the uncontrolled ferment of [the divine] substance, imagine that, by drawing a veil over self-consciousness and surrendering understanding they become the beloved of God to whom He gives wisdom in sleep; and hence what they in fact receive, and bring to birth in their sleep, is nothing but dreams.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, quote from Phenomenology of Spirit
“sería hipócrita o ingenuo creer que la ley se ha hecho para todo el mundo en nombre de todo el mundo; que es más prudente reconocer que se ha hecho para algunos y que recae sobre otros; que en principio obliga a todos los ciudadanos, pero que se dirige principalmente a las clases más numerosas y menos ilustradas; que, a diferencia de lo que ocurre con las leyes políticas o civiles, su aplicación no concierne por igual a todo el mundo,39 que en los tribunales la sociedad entera no juzga a uno de sus miembros, sino que una categoría social encargada del orden sanciona a otra que está dedicada al desorden:”
― Michel Foucault, quote from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
“Dios no solo juega a los dados, a veces los tira donde no se pueden ver.”
― Stephen Hawking, quote from A Briefer History of Time
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