"Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection."

-- Andre Maurois

#Women Quotes #Lying Quotes #Perfection Quotes

“The way the elderly are treated, and in some cases warehoused and medicated, rather than nurtured and listened to, is distressing.”
“Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.”
“It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?”
“Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.”
“Native advertising covers an awful lot of stuff. In many ways, it's just an extension of what in print had been called for years an advertorial.”
“I like the authentic object, and I have no problem paying sixty dollars for a T-shirt if it fits me really well and it's really well made. I like unassuming clothes.”
“Playing a concerto with Zubin is like being surrounded by a well-loved, cashmere-lined silk glove.”
“Finnick!" Something between a shriek and a cry of joy. A lovely if somewhat bedraggled young woman--dark tangled hair, sea green eyes--runs toward us in nothing but a sheet. "Finnick!" And suddenly, it's as if there's no one in the world but these two, crashing through space to reach each other. They collide, enfold, lose their balance, and slam against a wall, where they stay. Clinging into one being. Indivisible. A pang of jealousy hits me. Not for either Finnick or Annie but for their certainty. No one seeing them could doubt their love.”

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