In the end the conversation petered out, running aground in the shallows of shared experience.
“Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action? How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
“Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
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