"But anyone who has been that young knows that the great grief of love is that your body feels the most when it knows the least."

--

Source : Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.226, Random House

Sarah Dunant

#Grief Quotes #Love Is Quotes #Body Quotes

“We are made of emotions. We are all looking for emotions, basically. It's only a question of finding the way to experience them.”
“As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things”

Source : FaceBook post by Kazuo Ishiguro from Feb 02, 2013
“Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.”

Source : William Allingham, Helen Paterson Allingham (1912). “Poems”
“Just because youâ€™ve only been alive for fifteen years doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less anything except old. Thatâ€™s all it means. It doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less experienced. It doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less intelligent. It doesnâ€™t mean youâ€™re less sensitive. It doesnâ€™t mean you take things less seriously. Itâ€™s like, these are younger human beings, meaning donâ€™t, because theyâ€™re only ten, start thinking that they donâ€™t know what youâ€™re talking about -because they do. Donâ€™t leave people out in the cold, and donâ€™t talk down to people -donâ€™t. It never works out.”
“He unzipped his pants and his brains fell out.”
“I'm a big believer that there's more power in numbers and the more you can expand the stories that are relevant to both communities, the better. For example, a school that's terrible for black kids is terrible for brown kids. We have to figure out ways to navigate the school systems and make sure that we're investing in a public education system that's beneficial for all kids.”
“Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a democratic society presupposes confidence and candor in the relations of men with one another and eager collaboration for the larger ends of life instead of the pursuit of petty, selfish or vainglorious aims.”
“You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.”

You may also like:

Cesare Borgia
Duke of Valentinois
Christopher Moore
Writer
Girolamo Savonarola
Dominican Monk
Kate Atkinson
Writer
Philippa Gregory
Novelist
Pope Alexander VI
Sarah Waters
Novelist
Susan Vreeland
Author
Tracy Chevalier
Novelist