“Love isn’t really about what we think of the other person, but how we feel about ourselves when we are with that person.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“That’s the problem with the finite. You can open only one door at a time, and you’ll never know what was behind the door you didn’t open.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“I was happy, and nothing in the world can make you oblivious to your surroundings like happiness.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“Love was love, but art was art and though he mixed the two a little, he never confused them.”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
“sillage, what remains when all else has left. “Come on,”
― Jeanne Mackin, quote from The Beautiful American
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“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, quote from The Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings Part One
“I'll bet you think my favorite color is red, don't you? Well, close. It's purple. Purple is such a twisted, complex color--it conveys the passion of red, the sadness of blue, the depravity of black. Purple is neither happy nor sad. It is pain and despair but longing, too--fiery desire, beaten and bruised but struggling onward, determined to overcome, to move forward rather than retreat.”
― James Patterson, quote from Invisible
“Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, they contain pure truths, before we cluttered our languages with so many useless words.”
― Cassandra Clare, quote from The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess
“Only if you are afraid of looking foolish, and I would have looked far more foolish if I persisted with an erroneous belief.”
― Sara Ella, quote from Unraveling
“Love shouldn’t feel like added weight. It should make you feel as light as air.”
― Colleen Hoover, quote from Too Late
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