"Frankly, the trouble with winter is, it is all backbone. It is fleshless, insensate, with neither a breast to be leaned on nor a heart to love and ache and, if need be, break, nor any kindly hand to fondle and caress like a sea-wave on a sunny shore half asleep."

-- William Alfred Quayle

#Heart Quotes #Winter Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I decided then and there I was never going to have kids.”
“You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle. And it's not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they're too busy with their own. The beautiful ones. The popular ones. The guys that pick on you. Everyone. If you could hear what they were feeling. The loneliness. The confusion. It looks quiet down there. It's not. It's deafening.”
“I believe you are never past the point of creating opportunities for yourself.”

Source : Interview with A.J. Sheeran, tv.avclub.com. October 18, 2011.
“In my heart, I've never left Brazil.”
“The gay movement doesn't care about what you think...they're focused on the young ones because if you can put the ideas into their minds it's just a matter of time before you die off and they take your place and their value system will then allow all the rules to be changed.”
“You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (2011). “Woodcutters”, p.41, Faber & Faber
“Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.”
“I don't care if I never see Texas again.”

Source : Rafer Johnson (1998). “The Best that I Can be: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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