“Two men looked out from prison bars,
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
One saw the mud, the other saw stars.”
― How to Stop Worrying and Start Living: Time-Tested Methods for Conquering Worry
“Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green)”
― The Lucky One
― The Lucky One
“I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.”
― Emma
― Emma
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