#innocence

I prefer to be left alone with my books. ↗

— Alison Weir

#jane-grey #solitude #innocence

Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much. ↗

— P.D. James

#pain #innocence

Power is something of which I am convinced there is no innocence this side of the womb. ↗

— Nadine Gordimer

#convinced #i #i am #innocence #power

It's the first villain that I've played in a movie that has absolutely no vulnerability and no innocence, nothing whatsoever that is likeable about her other than she's so bad. ↗

— Daryl Hannah

#absolutely #bad #first #her #i

I've always felt that distant train whistles heard in the dead of night are the universe's way of letting us know the best days are neither ahead nor behind us...they're happening right now, cradled in the palms of our hands. But that doesn't change the fact that the whiskey, weed, and romance eventually runs out and the night will soon turn to day. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#daydreaming #death #history #innocence #love

Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America? ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#anything #do you know #funny #humiliating #innocence

Once you start asking questions, innocence is gone. ↗

— Mary Astor

#asking questions #gone #innocence #once #questions

Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#having #innocence #language #like #long

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#gullible #innocence #lust #more #than

Innocence: I am only stepping on your face because it lies in my path. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#because #face #i #i am #innocence