"Let me go.â€ â€œI canâ€™tâ€, he said hoarsely, (â€¦)â€ Iâ€™ve tried a hundred times to let you go, Victoria, but I canâ€™t."

-- Judith McNaught

#Letting You Go Quotes #Hundred Quotes #Said Quotes

“What is written is merely the dregs of experience.”
“When I was younger, there was a sort of stigma attached to my stamina. My dad took me swimming one day and I just was no good at it, so my dad said, 'Your stamina's bad.”
“Is it not true, then, that my life with all its limitation touches at many points the life of the World Beautiful? Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be, therein to be content.”
“The character can never be static from book to book. People might think you just come up with a new plot and stick this guy in. Well, he has to be as new as the plot every time.”
“The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.”
“Women's eyes are rapid in detecting a heart which is ill at ease with itself, and, knowing the value of sympathy, and finding their own greatest happiness not in receiving it, but in giving it, with them to be unhappy is at once to be interesting.”
“We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.”
“leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”

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