"The life of Dumas is not only a monument of endeavour and success, it is a sort of labyrinth as well. It abounds in pseudonyms and disguises, in sudden and unexpected appearances and retreats as unexpected and sudden, in scandals and in rumours, in mysteries and traps and ambuscades of every kind."

-- William Ernest Henley

#Labyrinth Quotes #Scandal Quotes #Retreat Quotes

“People make fun of Jersey girls, but I think they're just jealous.”
“He said, 'Yeah, but will I get chicks? In truckloads?”
“Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.”
“When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, "Poor truant, passionate fool! Lifeâ€™s book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school?" A poem by Charles Hanson Towne”
“The point of departure for my creation was not primarily the destiny of the sixteen Carmelites of CompiÃ¨gne but the figure of the young Blanche. In a historic sense she never lived, but she received the breath of life from my internal spirit, and she cannot be detached from the origin, which is hers. Born in the profound horror of a time darkened by the signs of destiny, this figure arose before me in some way as the embodiment of the mortal agony of an era going totally to its ruin.”
“Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.”

Source : Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “Myself When Young: The Shaping of a Writer”, p.120, Hachette UK
“Freedom is also about what you will allow yourself to do.”
“A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.”

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