"Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!"

-- William Makepeace Thackeray

#Love Quotes #Sometimes Quotes #Young Quotes

“Celia." he says without looking up at her, "why do we wind our watch?" "Because everything requires energy," she recites obediently, eyes still focused on her hand. "We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”

Source : Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.22, Random House
“I've always been taught to care what other people think. My grandmother and mother taught me to project a positive image of myself.”
“The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God...”
“I know I can be very standoffish . . .”

Source : "The Beaten Path / Author David Pelzer chronicles a nightmare childhood" by Jerry Carroll, www.sfgate.com. July 30, 1998.
“Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.”

Source : Interview with John Hawkes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2012.
“What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.”
“Thought is the measure of life.”
“All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.”

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