Alex Simeon

“Water flows from high places to low places. That is the nature of gravity. Emotions also seem to act according to gravity. When in the presence of someone with whom you have a bond, and to whom you have entrusted your feelings, it is hard to lie and get away with it. The truth just wants to come flowing out. This is especially the case when you are trying to hide your sadness or vulnerability. It is much easier to conceal sadness from a stranger, or from someone you don’t trust.”
― Toshikazu Kawaguchi, Before the Coffee Gets Cold

“Maybe it's the whole concept of a guilty pleasure," Neil says gently. "Why should we feel guilty about something that brings us - pleasure?”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow

“Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with—often with cruel and deceitful intentions—in an unreal world.”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769

“Marie Antoinette insisted on having likenesses of the heads of her favorite dogs carved on the armrests of her chairs.”
― Kathryn Lasky, Marie Antoinette: Princess of Versailles, Austria-France, 1769