"Through this feeling of helplessness suddenly burst a piercing nostalgia for the lost world of childhood. The way it came right up against the heart, that world, and against the face. No indoors or outdoors, only everything touching us, and the grown-ups lumbering past overhead like constellations."

-- Denis Johnson

#Heart Quotes #Past Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.”
“You put your time where your priority is.”

Source : Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books
“Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.”
“All it takes is one person who is committed, focused, and on a mission to spark an entire team into believing in themselves.”
“Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!”

Source : Carman Walker, Carman, Walter Walker (1994). “Raising the Standard/Reclaiming Your World for God”, Chordant Distribution
“It rekindles the great Hollywood romances.”
“Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2007). “Simply Magic”, p.61, Delacorte Press
“I sometimes cry in the moments that are not necessarily dramatic or tragic in the films, often because of the music. I wonder whether it's the music that has that effect on you in this film.”

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