"It was the last time sheâ€™d see the river from that window. The last time of anything has the poignancy of death itself. This that I see now, she thought, to see no more this way. Oh, the last time how clearly you see everything; as though a magnifying light had been turned on it. And you grieve because you hadnâ€™t held it tighter when you had it every day."

-- Betty Smith

#Grieving Quotes #Light Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“My best beauty secret is simple: Have the right palette and the right colors and remember, you need so much less makeup than you think.”
“Just don't keep me in the dark about things. Otherwise, why am I with you?”
“Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept”

Source : Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.”
“Because nothing says flattery like a gun to the head.”
“To contrast national solidarity and international cooperation as two opposites seems foolish to me.”
“One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath.”
“Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires werenâ€™t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in action. Witchcraft was different- that took spells and rituals. But magic? A wish, a need, a hunger too strong to be denied- these could turn into deeds when they cross a witchâ€™s mind.”

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