“Then love knew it was called love.
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way”
― Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada. Cien sonetos de amor
And when I lifted my eyes to your name,
suddenly your heart showed me my way”
― Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada. Cien sonetos de amor
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
― Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.”
― Mourning Becomes Electra
― Mourning Becomes Electra
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