“Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.”
― Evelyn Waugh, quote from The Loved One
“Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.”
― Evelyn Waugh, quote from The Loved One
“Outside the windows the cars swept past continuously, out of town, into town, lights ablaze, radios at full throttle. “I wither slowly in thine arms,” he read. “Here at the quiet limit of the world,” and repeated to himself: “Here at the quiet limit of the world. Here at the quiet limit of the world”… as a monk will repeat a simple pregnant text, over and over again in prayer.”
― Evelyn Waugh, quote from The Loved One
“What is a "canty day", Dennis?'
'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.'
'What is that?'
'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.'
'Oh.”
― Evelyn Waugh, quote from The Loved One
“They are a very decent, generous lot of people out here and they don't expect you to listen. Always remember that, dear boy. It's the secret of social ease in this country. They talk entirely for their own pleasure. Nothing they say is designed to be heard.”
― Evelyn Waugh, quote from The Loved One
“Mr. Schultz, you're jealous of whispering Glades."
"And why wouldn't I be seeing all that dough going on relations they've hated all their lives, while the pets who've loved them and stood by them , never asked no questions, never complained, rich or poor, sickness or health, get buried anyhow like animals?”
― Evelyn Waugh, quote from The Loved One
Evelyn Waugh
Born place: in Combe Florey, Somerset, England, The United Kingdom
Born date October 28, 1903
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“Settle for what you can get, but first ask for the World. - Ka'a Ort'o, Gnomic Utterances, Civ”
― Diana Wynne Jones, quote from The Tough Guide to Fantasyland
“...и въпреки това и сега не вярвахме, че е истина, и не защото наистина не вярвахме, а защото не искахме да е истина, бяхме стигнали дотам, че вече не знаехме какво ще стане с нас без него, какво ще стане с нашия живот след него, не можех да си представя света без човека, който на дванайсет години беше ме направил толкова щастлива, както никой друг по-късно не можа да ме направи след онези отминали преди толкова време следобеди, когато излизахме от училище в пет, а той дебнеше от капандурите на обора момичетата в сини униформи с моряшка яка и коси, сплетени отзад само на една плитка, като си мислеше, майчице Бендисион Алварадо, колко били красиви жените на моята възраст, викаше ни, виждахме тръпнещите му очи, ръката в ръкавици със скъсани пръсти, която се мъчеше да ни изкуси с карамеленото звънче на посланика Форбес, всички се разбягаха изплашени, всички освен аз, аз останах сама на улицата пред училището и когато разбрах, че никой не ме гледа, опитах се да грабна бонбона и тогава той ме сграбчи за китките с нежните тигрови лапи и ме вдигна във въздуха, без да ми причинява болка, и ме прокара с такова внимание през капандурата, че не развали нито едно плисе на полата ми, и ме сложи да легна във вмирисаното на застояла урина сено, като се мъчеше да ми каже нещо, което не излизаше от сухата му уста, защото беше по-изплашен и от мен, трепереше, под куртката му се усещаха ударите на сърцето, беше блед, очите му бяха пълни със сълзи, както на никой мъж през целия ми изгнанически живот, пипаше ме мълчешката, дишаше бавно, опипваше ме с нежност, каквато никога вече не срещнах, зърната на гърдите ми наедряваха, не му бяха нужни повече карамелите на посланика Балдрих, за да се вмъквам през капандурите на обора, та да изживея щастливите часове на пубертета си с тоя мъж с чисто и тъжно сърце, който ме чакаше седнал в сеното,...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from The Autumn of the Patriarch
“It was just her and Midas in here, tucked away from the world. Here she could turn quietly into glass, with only love to distract her.”
― Ali Shaw, quote from The Girl With Glass Feet
“Forgiveness was a strange gift. One that had to be shared in order to be kept.”
― Tamera Alexander, quote from Rekindled
“The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings…. As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become. —FROM THE DHAMMAPADA (SAYINGS OF THE BUDDHA)”
― Lama Surya Das, quote from Awakening the Buddha Within
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