"To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse."

--

Barbara Tuchman

#Library Quotes #Shelter Quotes #Muse Quotes

“Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them.”
“As the days grow short, some faces grow long. But not mine. Every autumn, when the wind turns cold and darkness comes early, I am suddenly happy. It's time to start making soup again.”
“China tea, the scent of hyacinths, wood fires and bowls of violets â€“ that is my mental picture of an agreeable February afternoon.”

Source : Constance Spry (1953). “A Constance Spry Anthology”
“Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?”

Source : Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away”
“If paintings are so important - worth so much, reproduced, cherished, and visited so often - then isn't it troubling that we can hardly make emotional contact with the artists? Few centuries, it seems, are as determinedly tearless as ours.”
“The lesson, I suppose, is that none of us have much control over how we will be remembered. Every life is an amalgam, and it is impossible to know what moments, what foibles, what charms will come to define us once we're gone. All we can do is live our lives fully, be authentically ourselves, and trust that the right things about us, the best and most fitting things, will echo in the memories of us that endure.”

Source : "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". www.oprah.com. April, 2014.
“The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.”

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