“Whatever time we have," he said, "it will be time enough.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“Ever try to hold a butterfly? It can't be done. You damage them," he said. 'As gentle as you try to be, you take the powder from their wings and they won't ever fly the same. It's kinder to let them go.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“Tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“Knowing that the battle will not end the way he wishes does not make it any less worthwhile the fight.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“When I meet a wind I cannot fight , I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“The years might change our outer selves, but underneath it all we stayed the same, we kept our patterns ...”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, And has time enough.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“I would argue ’tis never the place, but the people one shares it with who are the cause of our happiest memories. That is why we find that having lived them once, we never can recapture them.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“always best to think the worst of everyone, for that way you’ll be seldom disappointed.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“I'd met people in my life who were pure poison. I had learnt to know the look of them - the way their smiles came and went and never touched their eyes, those eyes that could be so intense at times and yet revealed no soul. Such people might look normal, but inside it was as though some vital part of them was missing, and whenever I saw eyes like that I'd learnt to turn and run and guard my back while I was leaving.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“When I meet a wind I cannot fight,’ he said, ‘I can do naught but set my sails to let it take me where it will.”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“And has the truth become the property of those who can afford it?’ The”
― Susanna Kearsley, quote from The Rose Garden
“Everyone is a puzzle, Tea, made of interlocking tiles you must piece together to form a picture of their souls. But to successfully build them, you must have an idea of their strengths as well as their weaknesses. We all have them, even me.”
― Rin Chupeco, quote from The Bone Witch
“Fortune favors the bold," he said. "But she'll only fall for a bloke who's got an ace up his sleeve.”
― Courtney Alameda, quote from Shutter
“Men who live by robbing their fellow men of their labor and liberty have forfeited their right to know anything of the thoughts, feelings, or purposes of those whom they rob and plunder. They have by the single act of slaveholding voluntarily placed themselves beyond the laws of justice and honor, and have become only fitted for companionship with thieves and pirates - the common enemies of God and of all mankind.”
― Frederick Douglass, quote from Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
“Just behind his jaw bones a tiny movement was perceptible, like the movement of gills in a fish.”
― John Collier, quote from Fancies and Goodnights
“The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together.”
― Francis Bacon, quote from Essays
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