"I watched her die many times. In my way, not in hers. In sunlight, in shadow, by moonlight, by candlelight. In the long afternoons when the house was empty. Only the sun was there to keep us company. We shut him out. And why not? Very soon she was as eager for what's called loving as I was - more lost and drowned afterwards."

-- Jean Rhys

#Long Quotes #House Quotes #Shadow Quotes

“Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since”
“The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.”

Source : "Space Chantey" by R. A. Lafferty, (Ch. 4), 1968.
“The Communist Party apparatus was the most gigantic mafia the world has ever known.”
“In our imaginations the adults of our childhood remain extreme, essential - we might say radical since they are the roots that fed luxuriant later systems. Those first bohemians, for instance, stay operatic in memory even though were we to meet them today - well, what would we think, we who've elaborated our eccentricities with a patience, a professionalism they never knew?”
“I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.”

Source : Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com
“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”
“Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad.”
“I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.”

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