"I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours."

--

Henry James

#Rocks Quotes #Littles Quotes #Trust Me Quotes

“The most hopeful thing in the stories, I hope, is wit. I make it up. If I make up a world in which we're ruled by big talking turds, it doesn't mean that we are. So you shouldn't feel depressed...”
“Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.”
“Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets”
“Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.”

Source : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn (1983). “Seek the House of Relatives”
“My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just that it matters. It matters not just to us but to the entire universe.”
“Most archivists don't like surprises. That's why we work in the past.”
“When I die, I hope they don't cremate me 'cuz I'll burn forever.”
“If you want to live like a Republican, vote like a Democrat.”

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