"Love, like broken porcelain, should be wept over and buried, for nothing but a miracle will resuscitate it: but who in this world has not for some wild moments thought to recall the irrecoverable with words?"

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Source : Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

Freya Stark

#Broken Quotes #Miracle Quotes #World Quotes

“If he'd been any other boy, and this was any other world, I would have kissed him. Nothing could have stopped me.”
“The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.”
“The actor side of me loves to get dressed up and I feel like Cinderella when I'm in diamonds.”

Source : FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Mar 24, 2017
“You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.”
“Maybe I'll just become a cartoon character because there's nothing left for me to do in an R-rated comedy.”
“I feel like my mum is in heaven sharing a cup of tea with Lady Fate and plotting my life out like a chess game.”

Source : "Jenny Frost: I'm sure Mum is watching over me and shaping my life". www.mirror.co.uk. November 11, 2010.
“You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.”
“It's just the world seems a very spacious place without him.”

Source : Freya North (2012). “Cat”, p.81, HarperCollins UK

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