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“I love you, what star do you live on?”
Source : Conrad Aiken (1918). “The Charnel Rose. Senlin: Biography and Other Poems”, p.74, Ardent Media
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“Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.”
Source : Cherie Carter-Scott (2010). “If Success Is A Game, These Are The Rules”, p.16, Random House
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“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”
Source : "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.
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“The devil take these people and their language! They take a dozen monosyllabic words in their jaws, chew them, crunch them and spit them out again, and call that speaking. Fortunately they are by nature fairly silent, and although they gaze at us open-mouthed, they spare us long conversations.”
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“It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.”
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“Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.”
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“Was life always like that? she wondered. A game of hide and seek in which you only occasionally found the person you wanted to be?”
Source : Maud Hart Lovelace (2011). “Betsy and the Great World/Betsy's Wedding: Betsy-Tacy Series”, p.22, Harper Collins
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“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”
