"I lift up my heart in gratitude for these beautiful yearly bridges that bind us together in love."

“You will like her," he persisted. "Egad, she's after your own heart, maman! She shot me in the arm." "Voyons, do you think that is what I like?”

“Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now.”

“None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.”

Source : Benjamin Whichcote, Anthony Tuckney (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms [collected by J. Jeffery from the papers of B. Whichcote]. Now re-publ., with additions, by S. Salter. To which are added, Eight letters: which passed between dr. Whichcote, and dr. Tuckney”, p.155

“An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.”

“...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.”

“Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.”

Source : Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.75, Atlantic Books Ltd

“Are you a vegetarian?' I ask, based on the evidence in front of me. She nods. 'Why?' 'Because I have this theory that when we die, every animal that we've eaten has a chance at eating us back. So if you're a carnivore and you add up all the animals you've eaten--well, that's a long time in purgatory, being chewed.' 'Really?' She laughs. 'No. I'm just sick of the question. I mean, I'm a vegetarian because I think it's wrong to eat other sentient creatures. And it sucks for the environment.”

“As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.”