"One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces . . . in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces . . ."

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Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (2006). “Life in the Iron-mills: Easyread Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com

Rebecca Harding Davis

#Summer Quotes #Lying Quotes #Solitude Quotes

“Upward, not Northward”

Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.92, Xist Publishing
“It has been an extraordinary experience and, in many ways, extremely positive.”
“Nothing is so difficult but that man will accomplish it.”
“Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.”
“A good life is when you assume nothing, do more, smile often, dream big, laugh a lot and realize how blessed you are for what you have.”
“What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.”
“I was teaching myself notes from three and then by seven I'd figured out how to play some chords, and at school I used to love writing poems and poetry, so I guess I kind of put two and two together and that formed my songwriting from an early age.”
“The world is not real for me until it has been pushed through the mesh of language.”

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