"Fact One: Cataract surgery is simple, painless and (except with implants) risk free ... the whole procedure is common, routine and nothing to worry about. Fact Two: Fact One applies only to cataracts on the eyes in somebody else's head."

-- Helene Hanff

#Eye Quotes #Simple Quotes #Two Quotes

“I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.”
“A neurosis is wherever we are allied against our true nature.”
“You have to take your job seriously, but you can't take yourself seriously.”
“Who was the Thief that she would love him? A youth, just a boy with hardly a beard and no sense at all... A liar, she thought, an enemy, a threat. He was brave, a voice inside her said, he was loyal... A fool, she answered back. A fool and a dead one. She ached with emptiness.”
“Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you're the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light.”
“Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you."”
“I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!”
“Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention”

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