"I am sorry " I murmured. "I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair. "I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark. He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life."

-- Deanna Raybourn

#Sorry Quotes #Dark Quotes #Kissing Quotes

“I want to die a slave to principles. Not to men.”

Source : "Heroes of Mexico" by Morris Rosenblum, (p. 112), 1969.
“It's frightfully important for a writer to be his age, not to be younger or older than he is. One might ask, "What should I write at the age of sixty-four," but never, "What should I write in 1940.”
“Some people love magic for the right reasons: They love to experience wonder. They don't want to know how it works. In this day and age, we know how everything works. We can Google anything and the answer is never really far away. Magic is a break from that where you get to enjoy mystery. And then there's the people who watch the trick but don't want to enjoy it because they want to figure it out and they feel like I'm challenging their intelligence, which I'm not doing. Those people are hell-bent on not enjoying magic and probably not enjoying their lives either.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“A dim capacity for wings demeans the dress I wear.”
“Struggling at anything that you want to be doing is hard”
“A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.”
“Many people have played themselves to death. Many people have eaten and drunk themselves to death. Nobody ever thought himself to death.”

Source : Gilbert Highet (1976). “The Immortal Profession: The Joys of Teaching and Learning”, Random House Incorporated
“I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development.”

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