"I once had a man break up with me. He said I was using him because right after making love I would weigh myself."

-- Emily Levine

#Men Quotes #Heartache Quotes #Making Love Quotes

“There are some things a girl never forgets, Ry. And one of those is a kiss from the right guy”
“Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.”

Source : "It's Spreading" by Jill Lepore, www.newyorker.com. June 1, 2009.
“God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!”

Source : Elizabeth Randolph Preston Allan, Margaret Junkin Preston (1903). “The Life and Letters of Margaret Junkin Preston”
“I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.”

Source : "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.
“Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty.”
“Could fulfillment ever be felt as deeply as loss?”
“God gives not kings the stile of Gods in vaine, For on his throne his sceptre do they sway; And as their subjects ought them to obey, So kings should feare and serve their God againe.”
“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”

Source : Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.32, Jester House Publishing

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