"There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others."

-- Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

#Love Quotes #Self Quotes #Littles Quotes

“What can I say? I've never met a cupcake I didn't want to get to know better.”

Source : Jasinda Wilder (2016). “Big Girls Do It Running”, p.15, NLA Digital LLC
“Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue”
“How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?”
“I don't miss EastEnders. I did a two-stretch. That was enough.”
“I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.”
“One minute she acts like she wants to be with me and I'm the one rejecting her. The next, she's got this barbed wire fence and barking dogs around her, like I can't even ask her the simplest questions." "And here I was assuming you didn't care about her." Stabbing his fingers through his hair, he groaned, "I don't!" "And you make it perfectly clear." Men. Idiots.”

Source : Jennifer Armintrout (2007). “Blood Ties Book Three: Ashes to Ashes”, p.107, MIRA
“Jerusalem - a divided city, where demonstrations for and against various issues occur regularly. One day, during an Orthodox demonstration against autopsies, I happened to click a few frames while a young man pushed his hamsa (spread hand) into my camera, which is seen by some as 'the evil eye.' As it happened, it was the tail end of my roll of film and the image is actually a double exposure. This taught me that in spite of your careful framing, chance occurrences create the most interesting images.”
“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”

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