Lisa Bolding > Lisa's Quotes

“at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.”
― Susan Wiggs, The You I Never Knew

“The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.”
― W.H. Auden

“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“Be yourself, as no one else can.”
― Stephen Richards

“I value the lover's
sighs of happiness and I despise the hypocrite
mumbling his prayers.”
― Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“Drink wine and look at the moon
and think of all the civilisations
the moon has seen passing by.”
― Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“Dawn filled the sky with roses. In the
crystal-clear air the last song of the nightingale
dies. The smell of the wine weakens. This is the moment
when fools dream of fame! How soft
is your hair, my beloved!”
― Omar Khayyám, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

“Into this life of cruel wonder sent,
Without a word to tell us what it meant,
Sent back again without a reason why -
Birth, life, and death - 'twas all astonishment.”
― Richard Le Gallienne, رباعيات خيام

“And do you think that unto such as you,
A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew,
God gave the Secret, and denied it me? -
Well, well, what matters it! believe that too.”
― Richard Le Gallienne, رباعيات خيام

“So I be written in the Book of Love,
I have no care about that book above;
Erase my name, or write it, as you please -
So I be written in the Book of Love.”
― Richard Le Gallienne, رباعيات خيام