Bone, love, meat, gristle, heat, anger, exhaustion, drive, hunger, blood, fat, marrow.
“& if some natures have to be refined by the sun, & some by the furnace (the less genial ones--) both means are to be recognized as good; . . . however different in pleasurableness & painfulness, & tho' furnace-fire leaves scorched streaks upon the fruit--.”
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
“I hope you'll never become so good at building walls that you can't see when they need to be pulled down.”
― Das Phantom: Die bisher ungeschriebene Lebensgeschichte des "Phantoms der Oper"
― Das Phantom: Die bisher ungeschriebene Lebensgeschichte des "Phantoms der Oper"
“Forgive me. I am shy by nature:--& by position & experience, . . . by having had my nerves shaken to excess, & by leading a life of such seclusion, . . . by these things together & by others besides, I have appeared shy & ungrateful to you. Only not mistrustful. You could not mean to judge me so. Mistrustful people do not write as I write, . . . surely!”
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
“Tell me something true, or tell me nothing at all.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
“Is it 'the cruellest cut of all' when you talk of infinite kindness, yet attribute such villainy to me?”
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
― The Love Letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning
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