"But it's not enough to be in love. It's about how you spend your days, what you do together, who you choose as friends, and most of all it's what work you do ... Better to break both our hearts now than watch them wither away over time."

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Source : Helen Simonson (2010). “Major Pettigrew's Last Stand”, p.380, A&C Black

Helen Simonson

#Heart Quotes #Together Quotes #Watches Quotes

“When I was younger, I enjoyed being strong, and I loved it when my heart was very strong, but I think it was also about submitting to the cultural idea that if you're a 22-year-old woman, you have to look a certain way. I'm not into that anymore. But I do appreciate it when my clothes fit.”

Source : Better Nutrition Magazine, March 2004.
“I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.”
“The journalism school helped me develop writing skills, and I had been enjoying cartooning from a very young age. My interest in puppetry, however, came much later.”
“It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.”
“Alan Rickman told me to do a play, so I did. Because when Alan Rickman tells you do something, you go and do it.”
“The only cure for vanity is laughter. And the only fault that's laughable is vanity.”
“A commercial aircraft is a vehicle capable of supporting itself aerodynamically and economically at the same time.”
“A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”

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