"Single gals aren't all a bunch of Bridget Joneses, desperate for love."

“Only a few kinds of images force you to shut your eyes: death, suffering, the opening of the body, some aspects of ***** for some people, and for others, giving birth. In this case, the eyes become black holes in which the image is absorbed willingly or unwillingly, these images are swallowed up and hit just where it hurts, without passing though the usual filters.”

“Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may also believe they deserve to be mistreated. Some will even defend their abuser, citing his or her earnest apologies afterward. But abuse in any form, for any reason, wounds both spouses. It's always sinful, and few things destroy trust in a marriage as quickly. Regardless of childhood pain or marital conflict, mature spouses learn to set limits so anger doesn't become abuse by frequency, degree, or duration.”

“Love exalts as much as glory does.”

Source : Louis Guimbaud, Juliette Drouet (2015). “Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo : Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet”, p.192, S T A N L E Y P A U L & C O

“It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.”

“Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.”

“My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored.”

Source : In Observer 12 Dec. 1948, p. 2

“I am a congenital liar. Some Highlanders are. To my ancestors, the truth was so sacred as to be unusable.”

“I'm almost six feet tall and have a deep voice. People never knew how to cast me.”