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“First rule of magic? Always be the smartest guy in the room.”
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“My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud his brow. On the very night of his death he took me in his arms, and during the many months when he lay dying in his wheel chair, he often said jokingly to me: 'Well, have you already picked out a lover?' I blushed with shame. 'Don't deceive me,' he added on one occasion, 'that would seem ugly to me, but pick out an attractive lover, or preferably several. You are a splendid woman, but still half a child, and you need toys.”
Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.31, Cosimo Classics
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“Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!”
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“I always found myself more drawn to each religious milieu than I would have anticipated, but in time, a ghoulish threat of being absorbed in alien territory always sent me retreating to the blander and safer ground of home.”
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“It's really funny - when I'm depressed or I'm having a hard time, I'll write really fun stuff. And then when I'm really happy, I write really depressing stuff.”
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“We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.”
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“The most wonderful thing in life is to do something for a child because they're children for such a short time. We can't allow ourselves to let them live a miserable childhood.”
Source : Source: articles.latimes.com
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“Misery alternates with euphoria.”
Source : Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.104, Harper Collins
