"It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Love Quotes #Sad Quotes #Broken Heart Quotes

“Just because one of you earns the paycheck doesn't mean that person should lord over how the money is handled.”
“Going back to something is harder than you think.”
“To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.”
“The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we lose some on Monday; a good deal is gone by Tuesday and we wonder whether we have anything left. On Wednesday it has all gone and then we exist. Or perhaps refreshment comes in some other way, some meeting we attend, some friends we meet. Now that is the old order of things, that is not the new. He puts a well within us. We are not always drawing from somewhere outside. The well, the spring, goes on springing up from within into everlasting life.”
“A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.”
“When you go out on the mound and you're confident in your body, you feel you can do anything.”
“Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.”

Source : Augustus Baldwin Longstreet (1992). “Georgia Scenes”, p.27, J.S. Sanders Books
“I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.”

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