#miles

For she had embodied the Great Perhaps--she had proved to me that it was worth it to leave behind my minor life for grander maybes, and now she was gone and with her my faith in perhaps. ↗

— John Green

#faith

I go to seek a Great Perhaps. ↗

— François Rabelais

#french-renaissance-writer #john-green #last-words #life #looking-for-alaska

We look forward to seeing all of your Vaseline coated smiles terribly soon. ↗

— Gitty Daneshvari

#smiles #smiling #funny

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooking #fragrance #humor #idealism #metaphors

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#geography #literary-london #london #metropolis #similes

The face of a truly happy man seldom lacks smiles. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happy #happy-man #humor #inspirational #smile

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

— Julia Quinn

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

True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#night-star #life

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind. ↗

— Brigid Lowry

#life #miles #life

Real destiny takes everything—the last drop of blood, and strip out your veins to be sure—and gives it back doubled. Quadrupled. A thousand-fold! But you can't give halves. You have to give it all. I know. I swear. I've come back from the dead to speak the truth to you. Real destiny gives you a mountain of life, and puts you on top of it. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#miles-vorkosigan #mirror-dance #life