"They leave things behind sometimes, the guests. A bottle of scent. A crumpled handkerchief. A pearl button that fell off a dress and rolled under a bed. And sometimes they leave other sorts of things. Things you can't see. A sigh trapped in a corner. Memories tangled in the curtains. A sob fluttering against the windowpane like a bird that flew in and can't get back out. I can feel these things. They dart and crouch and whisper."

-- Jennifer Donnelly

#Memories Quotes #Tangled Quotes #Bird Quotes

“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?”

Source : "Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions". Book by Victoria Glendinning (p. 54), 1981; later quoted in "An Uncommon Scold" edited by Abby Adams (p. 74), November 1, 1989.
“You can find the sacred in the most ordinary of things.”
“I'm just an average Canadian kid playing hockey.”
“Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.”
“A man was like a child with his appetites. A woman had to yield him what he wanted, or like a child he would probably turn nasty and flounce away and spoil what was a very pleasant connection.”
“I trained as an artist originally, so I know what a nice human body looks like, and I would like to look like that notion, and of course I never will. But I've got past that.”

Source : "A break in the clouds" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2006.
“Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.”

Source : "Kasich: 'Obama Should Let Me Run Ohio'" by John Kasich, www.foxnews.com. February 25, 2011.
“Is the Labour Party to remain a democratic party in which the right of free criticism and free debate is not merely tolerated but encouraged? Or are the rank and file of the party to be bludgeoned or cowed into an uncritical subservience towards the leadership?”

Source : Tribune, 1954.

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