"Love letters lack taste. No restraint: falling off cliffs, going up in flames."

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Source : Cathleen Schine (2013). “The Love Letter”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Cathleen Schine

#Fall Quotes #Flames Quotes #Letters Quotes

“Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?”
“Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.”
“Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.”
“Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed.”
“Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.”
“Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.”
“Past the village flowed the river, like time, like life itself, waiting for the swimmer to come again on his way to the climax of his adventurous life, and to the end for which he had been made.”

Source : Margaret Craven (1973). “I Heard the Owl Call My Name”
“A runners creed: I will win; if I cannot win, I shall be second; if I cannot be second, I shall be third; if I cannot place at all, I shall still do my best.”

Source : Ken Doherty (1964). “Modern training for running”, Prentice Hall

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