"Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder."

-- Dodie Smith

#Girl Quotes #Real Quotes #Men Quotes

“Whatever's there to feel, feel it—the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence.”

Source : "The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade".
“There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.”
“I aim to remind the warrior within us all to navigate through the unknown that we may meet the morning, improved and unenslaved.”

Source : New York Arts Magazine, October 2010.
“Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.”

Source : Mark Buchanan (2007). “The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath”, p.158, Thomas Nelson Inc
“The Internet is a graveyard, a bright malfunctioning littoral, and it is entirely necropastoral. But the necropastoral can't be sustained - it's non-sustainable.”

Source : "'Art as a sacred event'". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. April 7, 2015.
“For most modern marketers, quantity isn't the point. What matters is to matter. Lives changed. Work that made an actual difference. Connection.”
“Choice, with its inevitable invitations to loss, is always such a trial.”

Source : Donald Antrim (2011). “The Verificationist: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan
“Love is just chemicals.”

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