"They say it's the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time. Me, I just wanna live a life I'm gonna remember even if I don't write it down."

-- Tallulah Bankhead

#Girl Quotes #Writing Quotes #Diaries Quotes

“Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.”
“From a timid shy girl I had become a woman of resolute character, who could no longer be frightened by the struggle with troubles.”
“In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.”
“There is a lesson that I learned at twelve - the world does not end at the edge of a quad. There are people outside. The world does not end on the Fourth Level. There are people elsewhere. It took me two years to learn to apply the lesson - that neither does the world end with the Ship. If you want to accept life, you have to accept the whole bloody universe. The universe is filled with people, and there is not a single solitary spear carrier among them.”

Source : Alexei Panshin (1982). “Rite of passage”, Pocket
“A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.”

Source : Mervyn Levy (1965). “The Artist & the Nude: An Anthology of Drawings”, London : Barrie & Rockliff
“Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall pass away, nor leave a rack behind; And Time's revolving wheels shall lose at last The speed that spins the future and the past: And, sovereign of an undisputed throne, Awful eternity shall reign alone.”
“There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.”
“For surely a king is first a man. And so it must follow that a king does as all men do: the best he can.”

Source : Cameron Dokey (2008). “The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of "The Arabian Nights"”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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