"I want so much for my lover. At night when our beds are drawn close together I waken and see his dear yellow head on the pillow - sometimes his arm thrown over on my bed - and I kiss his hand, very softly so that it will not waken him."

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Source : Dawn Powell (1998). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965”, Zoland Books

Dawn Powell

#Kissing Quotes #Night Quotes #Hands Quotes

“To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!”
“It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I donâ€™t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come togetherâ€“my future, my past, the whole of my lifeâ€“and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!”

Source : Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.88, Vintage
“I can't think of any relatives that ever went into science.”
“The goal in life is to discover that youâ€™ve always been where you were supposed to be.”
“The supreme nobility of a Roman emperor does not consist in being a master of slaves, but in being a lord of free men, who loves freedom even in those who serve him.”
“Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking”
“College is a magic time. Yes, youre young and fickle, but you want to be part of this college experience... Then you graduate from that. You have your first job, moving to a new city.”
“Most people do not let the Word of God get in the way of what they believe.”

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