#light

I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die. ↗

— Portia de Rossi

#old #portia-de-rossi #reality #unbearable-lightness #age

A pretty face had been damaged by acne scars and she wore and extra forty pounds on her frame like a threat. Her eyes were dull with anger disguised as apathy. If she kept on her current path, she'd grow into the type of person who fed her kids Doritos for breakfast and purchased angry bumper stickers with lots of exclamation points. But right now, she was just another in a long line of pissed-off small-town girls with a shitty outlook. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#bad-moms #moonlight-mile #anger

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#although #am #basically #colour #consider

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#cold #continuity #dark #energy #grace

And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#chance #flight #happened #really #satellite

To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#ennui #exchange #hours #love #read

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#defending #enemy #flight #give #means

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it. ↗