"that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what things are like underneath what people say they are."

-- Jean Rhys

#Dream Quotes #Tired Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.”
“How do I speak Spanish? Not too well.”
“Never open a book with weather. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.”
“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.”

Source : Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.399, Pan Macmillan
“DEI without Dale Earnhardt Jr. is a museum.”
“He pronounced some of his words as if they were corks being drawn out of bottles.”

Source : Winston Graham (2013). “The Walking Stick”, p.10, Pan Macmillan
“To me, when a great band is playing together, it's amazing for me.”
“God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”

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