#din

Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know. ↗

— Ally Carter

#friends #spy #understanding #life

There’s a trick to the 'graceful exit.' It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, or a relationship is over — and let it go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its validity or its past importance to our lives. It involves a sense of future, a belief that every exit line is an entry, that we are moving up, rather than out. ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#endings #life

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers. ↗

— André P. Brink

#endings #relationships #dreams

All I know is I make sense to me- it's other people who seem complicated. ↗

— Tara Kelly

#understanding #life

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#life

You can only milk a cow so long, then you're left holding the pail. ↗

— Hank Aaron

#holding #left #long #milk #only

Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions. ↗

— Sara Nelson

#reading #life

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#reading #life

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. ↗

— Dylan Thomas

#poetry #reading #life

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life. ↗

— Scott Corbett

#life