"She'd assumed she'd be married and have kids by this age, that she would be grooming her own daughter for this, as her friends were doing. She wanted it so much she would dream about it sometimes, and then she would wake up with the skin at her wrists and neck red from the scratchy lace of the wedding gown she'd dreamed of wearing. But she'd never felt anything for the men she'd dated, nothing beyond her own desperation. And her desire to marry wasn't strong enough, would never be strong enough, to allow her to marry a man she didn't love."

-- Sarah Addison Allen

#Daughter Quotes #Dream Quotes #Strong Quotes

“This is serious business, sex, violence, and rock and roll.”
“There ain't never a horse that never been rode; there ain't never a rider that can't be thrown.”
“The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work.”
“After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.”
“In a corner of the churchyard grew a plantation of white violets, enormously plump and prosperous-looking. ... I saw the dead stretched out under me in the earth, feeding these flowers with a thin milk drawn from their bones.”

Source : Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books
“I think humor is the social use. You can put anything in it. I think - yes, I speak heavily in analogies - it is like putting the medicine in apple sauce or a block of cheese for a dog. Not that anyone in this room is a dog in this scenario.”
“There is no physical punishment in chess; suffering goes on inside the mind. You defend a bad position for hours, you suffer. You lose, you suffer like in any other sport. Suffering euphoria comes when the opponent blunders in a winning position, but it is undeserved.”

Source : "Joys of Chess: From Krabbé to Hesse" by Lubomir Kavalek, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2011.
“Changing is what people do when they have no options left.”

Source : Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.146, Simon and Schuster

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