“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
― Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
“you must rest.
and all at once
they fell into a deep sleep.
all the tired women
that lived inside her.”
― Made of Rivers
and all at once
they fell into a deep sleep.
all the tired women
that lived inside her.”
― Made of Rivers
“If you want me, just whistle. You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
(as Marie 'Slim' Browning in To Have and Have Not)”
― The Complete Films of Humphrey Bogart
(as Marie 'Slim' Browning in To Have and Have Not)”
― The Complete Films of Humphrey Bogart
“For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.”
― Utopia
― Utopia
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