Jeanne

“Taking cruelty for strength is the most common mistake of youth. Youth only knows life by the intensity of its own feelings—a continuous explosive fortissimo with a foot on the pedal. Youth knows nothing of that supreme sensitivity, the true sensitivity of the strong that denies cruelty; youth has no inkling of the force with which a barely audible pianissimo can strike under your heart.”
― Oksana Zabuzhko, The Museum of Abandoned Secrets

“I am not sure that I could explain in a way you could understand," replied the old man. "We judge life by our own reactions and sensations, and the reactions and sensations of others are often mere incomprehensible theories.”
― J. Jefferson Farjeon, Mystery in White

“Let me tell you something that goes against popular wisdom. Love is not blind; it just looks in the wrong places.”
― Meena Kandasamy, When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife

“he wanted the viewers to hear about the glory of the Trump family name. After all, this is the heart of the Fifth Commandment—to make your father’s name great by honoring him in word and deed.”
― David Brody, The Faith of Donald J. Trump: A Spiritual Biography