#hear

When he talked his eyes went away from mine and then he forced himself to look straight at me and he began to explain and I knew that he felt very strange with me and that he hated me, and it was funny sitting there and talking like that, knowing he hated me. ↗

— Jean Rhys

#funny

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe ↗

— Holly Black

#fiction #funny

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love #love

The end came as dusk fell on a gloomy winter day of cold rain. ↗

— Soheir Khashoggi

#heartbreak #sorrow #home

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do? ↗

— Bill Veeck

#doing #else #game #hear #i

There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart. ↗

— Judith Anderson

#enduring #except #heart #life #man

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near. ↗

— Andrew Marvell

#back #chariot #hear #hurrying #i

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses. ↗

— Charles Stanley

#experience #god #hear #heart #majestic

… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless. ↗

— Steve Toltz

#humor #relationships #humor

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#heart #imagination #mind #imagination