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“Acceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.”
Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.143, Penguin
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“History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it.”
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“In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!”
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“Will you come with me, sweet Reader? I thank you. Give me your hand.”
Source : Howard Pyle (1998). “The Adventures of Robin Hood”, p.4, Library of Alexandria
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“We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league.”
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“There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ***** together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.”
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“Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are!”
Source : Alfred de Musset, David Sices (1994). “Comedies & proverbs”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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“There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true, and, in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.”
