#ann

George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy in her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves. The bushes above them closed. He stepped quickly forward and kissed her. Before she could speak, almost before she could feel, a voice called 'Lucy! Lucy! Lucy!' The silence of life had been broken by Miss Bartlett, who stood brown against the view. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#heart-warming #romance #life

It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#life #planning #life

I realize that some people will not believe that a child of little more than ten years is capable of having such feelings. My story is not intended for them. I am telling it to those who have a better knowledge of man. The adult who has learned to translate a part of his feelings into thoughts notices the absence of these thoughts in a child, and therefore comes to believe that the child lacks these experiences, too. Yet rarely in my life have I felt and suffered as deeply as at that time. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#children #demian #feelings #hermann-hesse #thoughts

One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges. ↗

— Judith Martin

#courtesy #manners #miss-manners #age

I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews! ↗

— Anne Frank

#diary-of-a-young-girl #jewish #life #war #life

He hugs me tight while I look behind him, scanning faces like I did a few seconds ago. And like I will do for the rest of my life. ↗

— Ashley Elston

#scanning-faces #life

There's always something when you're at fault, too, and that fault you must discover and learn to recognize and take the consequences of it. ↗

— Anne Holm

#consequences #i-am-david #life #smart #wisdom

This child, with his naive outlook on life was the compass which showed them the degree of their departure from what they knew but did not want to know. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#seryozha #vronsky #life

To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it. ↗

— Michael Polanyi

#tyranny #life

I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#bevelstoke #julia-quinn #sebastian-grey #ten-things-i-love-about-you #life