#mile

George Smiley: [quoting an old letter from Bill Haydon about Jim Prideaux] He has that heavy quiet that commands. He's my other half. Between us we'd make one marvelous man. He asks nothing better than to be in my company or that of my wicked, divine friends, and I'm vastly tickled by the compliment. He's virgin, about eight foot tall, and built by the same firm that did Stonehenge ↗

— John le Carré

#british-intelligence #george-smiley #ian-bannon #ian-richardson #moles

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #music #simile #song #life

You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile. ↗

— Charles Chaplin

#smile #life

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#life #simile #life

The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too ↗

— Herbert Samuels

#smile #life

Why be alone when we can be together baby You can make my life worthwhile And I can make you start to smile ↗

— Mr. Big

#love #relationships #romance #smile #song

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#smile #life

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. ↗

— Judith Guest

#find #hard #keep #lips #people

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#miley-cyrus #movie #nicholas-sparks #ronnie #the-last-song

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#dunford #julia-quinn #love #minx #regency