“When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Here we are - despite the delays, the confusion, and the shadows en route - at last, or for the moment, where we always intended to be.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“People take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Of all the virtues, discretion began to seem the most rewarding: it kept people guessing and sometimes, by default, admiring.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“When it comes to love, dogs make pretty steep competition for us people. And rightly so.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“When it comes to love, there is the timeworn caution that the very qualities you fall hardest for may be those you grow to despise. With Stavros, she wonders if the opposite might hold true: that this quality she nearly fears - his aversion to sanctifying the past - is something for which she will someday be grateful.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“... we're all alive the day before we die ... but, how alive is another question.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“We’re all alive the day before we die.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“To have children is to plant roses, muguets, lavender, lilac, gardenia, stock, peonies, tuberose, hyacinth ...it is to achieve a whole sense,a grand sense one did not priorly know. It is to give one's garden another dimension. Perfume of life itself.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“She loved the dogs as you’re supposed to love dogs: consistently”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“Mind what you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved. As”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“feel as if I’m visiting home in a dream, where everything yet nothing is the way it should be, where the best of what you have and what you wish for are briefly, tantalizingly united. Tealing”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
“To love me, my family does not need to understand me.”
― Julia Glass, quote from Three Junes
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“A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.”
― Amin Maalouf, quote from In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong
“How do you feel?'
Scared,' she said. 'Really scared.'
But you don't look it.'
I feel I'm shivering inside.”
― Ian McEwan, quote from Enduring Love
“Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, quote from The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales
“I'd believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought hope could overcome everything, but I was wrong. Hope cannot overcome truth. Hope and truth cannot co-exist. Truth destroys hope. The most savage cruelties man inflicts on man are committed in the pursuit of truth. My last lie had been the most honest, the most honorable of them all, for there is an art greater even than the creation of hope. The greatest art of all is the destruction of truth.”
― Karen Maitland, quote from Company of Liars
“The country isn’t half worked out because they that governs it won’t let you touch it. They spend all their blessed time in governing it, and you can’t lift a spade, nor chip a rock, nor look for oil, nor anything like that without all the Government saying — ‘Leave it alone and let us govern.’ Therefore, such as it is, we will let it alone, and go away to some other place where a man isn’t crowded and can come to his own. We are not little men, and there is nothing that we are afraid of except Drink, and we have signed a Contrack on that. Therefore, we are going away to be Kings.”
― Rudyard Kipling, quote from The Man Who Would Be King
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