#ms

I lay on the bed and shut my eyes, thinking that nobody really likes marriage, that it's a flawed arrangement, that people get enthusiastic and jump in for a hundred reasons and then, after the ceremony, after a few years, the whole deal turns into a concert they wouldn't have dreamed of attending. ↗

— Frederick Barthelme

#marriage #regrets #dreams

I thought I was dreaming and I dreamed. ↗

— Марко Соколовић

#hope #love-hurts #relationships #truth #dreams

The shame of living extends its tentacles around my dreams. ↗

— Anne de Gandt

#life #shame #dreams

The flowers were beaten down, their bent-over heads bejeweled with diamond droplets like earring on sad, rich widows ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#sadness #dreams

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worthwhile. So, when you are lonely remember it's true: somebody, somewhere is thinking of you. ↗

— Atul Purohit

#life #love #novel #dreams

She didn’t watch the dead, ancient bone-chess cities slide under, or the old canals filled with emptiness and dreams. Past dry rivers and dry lakes they flew, like a shadow of the moon, like a torch burning. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dreams

'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#almost #antarctica #around #boat #circumstances

There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too. ↗

— Olivia Thirlby

#city #different #different kinds #exposed #fast

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law. ↗

— Andrew Thomas

#before #community #corrupt #god #i

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#cause #change #decadence #different #different ways