"He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a manuscript was its old illegible date, the bizarre and strange Gothic characters, the heavy gilding which loaded its drawings. It was its pages covered with dust â€” dust of which he breathed the sweet and tender perfume with delight."

-- Gustave Flaubert

#Sweet Quotes #Book Quotes #Character Quotes

“Of the things I know to be true in life, right at the top of the list of irrefutable truths is, "No one ever listens to anyone." It might even be No. 1.”
“The big elephant sitting in the corner is that George W. Bush is simply unqualified for the job. What's his accomplishment? That he's no longer an obnoxious drunk?”
“When I did find guys with whom I was very sexually compatible, trying to figure out how romance worked... when you're a gay guy you don't necessarily have that same push to make a conventional relationship work.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“The history of the meadow goes like this. No one owns it, no one ever will.”

Source : James Galvin (2014). “The Meadow”, p.4, Holt Paperbacks
“It's always something to remind you that everything ain't never gonna be alright!”

Source : J. California Cooper (2011). “Family”, p.155, Anchor
“We are so lucky to be surrounded by such open minded, well traveled individuals. Everyone has a different story and journey that we can learn from. We get to express ourselves in art and it can be crazy, but thatâ€™s the beauty of it. A mixture of different people and personalities coming together to make one image. Our jobs arenâ€™t easy but there is nothing Iâ€™d rather do.”
“there is no noise louder than a silent phone.”
“There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes, almost 10,000 ships, boats, landing craft, frigates, sloops, and other special combat vessels--all involved in a surprise attack on the heavily fortified north coast of France, to secure a beachhead in the heart of enemy-held territory so that the march to Germany and victory could begin. It was daring, risky, confusing, bloody, and ultimately glorious [p.25]”

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