“Falling in love should be the easiest thing in the world, but it's not.”
― Rachel Hawthorne, quote from Full Moon
“We were each other's rock. But did it make us each other's destiny?”
― Rachel Hawthorne, quote from Full Moon
“Supposedly, dreams reflect our hidden fears and secret desires, all clamoring for attention.”
― Rachel Hawthorne, quote from Full Moon
“Lindsey: Why would you choose me?
Rafe: Because you're the one I want.”
― Rachel Hawthorne, quote from Full Moon
“Was it possible to measure what the heart felt?”
― Rachel Hawthorne, quote from Full Moon
“the Aravaipa village near Camp Grant. Although Camp”
― Dee Brown, quote from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
“If you dread tomorrow it's because you don't know how to build the present, and when you don't know how to build the present, you tell yourself you can deal with it tomorrow, and it's a lost cause anyway because tomorrow always ends up being today don't you see ... We have to live with the certainty that we'll get old and that it won't look nice or be good or feel happy. And tell ourselves that it's now that matters: to build something now at any price using all our strength. Always remember that there's a retirement home waiting somewhere and so we have to surpass ourselves every day, make every day undying. Climb our own personal Everest and do it in such a way that every step is a little bit of eternity. That's what the future is for: to build the present with real plans made by living people.”
― Muriel Barbery, quote from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
“Please remember: things are not what they seem.”
― Haruki Murakami, quote from 1Q84
“I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclinations which do me and nobody else any harm, and actually give pleasure to those I love best. There, gentlemen, since you wanted to know how I was getting on, I have told you. Much good may it do you! I cannot explain further here. I perceive there is something wrong somewhere in our social formulas: what it is can only be discovered by men or women with greater insight than mine--if, indeed, they ever discover it-- at least in our time. 'For who knoweth what is good for man in this life?--and who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?”
― Thomas Hardy, quote from Jude the Obscure
“What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and deep in her heart the silent wound lives on.”
― Virgil, quote from The Aeneid
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