Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Thatcher
I think anybody who falls in love is a freak. It’s a crazy thing to do. It’s kind of like a form of socially acceptable insanity.
Amy
Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements
with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
Edgar Allen Poe
You take everything as a compliment.
I advise you to do the same. It saves many an awkward moment!
Downtown Abbey
. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?
Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
Zafon
X: Are you married?
Me: No.
X: So you just like adventures?
Real life situations
I’ve been trying to bring back your face — to remember just how you look. Funny how even the dearest face will fade away in time. Most clearly I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them.
Lorena Hickok
He: I can’t see anything I don’t like about you.
She: But you will, you will think of things and I’ll get bored with you and feel trapped because that’s what happens with me.
He: Okay.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
There is a sense of pleasure in moving from darkness to light or vice versa because as humans beings we are cyclical. How light reflects and how light is contained is the stuff of architecture.
Yvonne Farrell, Grafton Architects
Things that make me happy 