"Now we're like planets, holding to each other from a great distance. [...] Now we're hundreds of miles apart, our short arms keep us lonely, no one hears what's in my head. [...] It's March, even the birds don't know what to do with themselves."

-- Anne Michaels

#Lonely Quotes #Distance Quotes #Bird Quotes

“The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.”
“Your mortal attachments are like a puppetâ€™s strings," Avari said, both hands clasped casually at his back. "One need only pluck the right cord to make the puppet dance." His smile was almost creepier than his threats. "Dance, reaper!”
“Family jokes, though rightly cursed by strangers, are the bond that keeps most families alive.”

Source : Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a dancer”
“People struggle in marriages and more than 55% of people get divorced.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“There's the generic 'be yourself', you'll learn it the hard way. You might just have to learn it that hard way... I think I probably kind of learned it the hard way.”
“Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.”
“I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.”

Source : Speech, July 1987.
“There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.”

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