"There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read them like a book. Do not abandon me."

“No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive.”

Source : Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

“I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.”

Source : Ernie Pyle, David Nichols (1987). “Ernie's war: the best of Ernie Pyle's World War II dispatches”, Touchstone

“It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.”

“I don't read my reviews, I measure them.”

Source : "The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett - an extraordinary story of ordinary life" by Charlotte Jones, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2016.

“Every man would fall in love with their voice, their lovely appearance, but no man would ever get past that. They'd never really know the girls for who they actually were, never really love them. It would be impossible for any of the four girls to ever really fall in love and be genuinely loved in return.”

“My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.”

“Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live; Not where I love, but where I am, I die.”

Source : Saint Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the Rev. Robert Southwell”, p.68

“The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as you listen to me now, as you have always listened to me, is to know this: what I can believe, you can believe. And the way we all see our story-not just as Irish people but as flesh and blood individuals and not the way people tell us to see it-that's what we own, no matter who we are and where we come from.”