#bar

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret. ↗

— P.D. James

#fear #guilt #marriage #regret #marriage

For M & B. Should you ever get to read this, to remind you that when life offers you a challenge: rise to the occasion. ↗

— Hope Barrett

#dedication #forget-heels #hope-barrett #inspire #inspirational

Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#endorsement #inspiration #kennedy #politics #voting

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#bark #gestures #hear #hearing #listen

El futuro llega enseguida, hagas lo que hagas. Y entonces, te das cuenta de lo importante que es tener tiempo para vivir, para ser feliz ↗

— Sergio Bambaren

#sergio-bambaren #inspirational

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet. ↗

— James Taylor

#bare feet #feet #find #go #healthier

What is she to you anyway? Here's my answer captain. She's the thing that made this all okay-The threadbare coats and the old boots and the guns that jams when you most need them to fire, the loneliness of knowing that you don't matter, that you will never matter, the fact that you're just another body, another uniform to be sent into the fold or the frost, another good boy who knows his place, who does his job, who doesn't ask questions, who will lie down and die and be forgotten. What is she? She's everything, you dumb son of a bitch. -Mal ↗

— Leigh Bardugo

#leigh-bardugo #love #shadow-and-bone #inspirational

'Jaws' was the definitive filmmaking turning point for me. It came out in the summer of '75 and I saw it an obsessive 55 times. They even ran a very embarrassing article about me in the local paper, about the weird kid who's seen 'Jaws' 55 times. ↗

— Victor Salva

#article #came #definitive #embarrassing #even

The bar was very high-we had to really make sure that we got what we really wanted, that it was a real finished album. We weren't going to give up until we got that. ↗

— Roger Andrew Taylor

#bar #finished #give #going #got

A dozen more questions occurred to me. Not to mention twenty-two possible solutions to each one, sixteen resulting hypotheses and counter-theorems, eight abstract speculations, a quadrilateral equation, two axioms, and a limerick. That's raw intelligence for you. ↗

— Jonathan Stroud

#intelligence #intelligence