#om

Pursue knowledge as though it is your life-blood, then you will know greatness! ↗

— Monique Rockliffe

#knowledge-wisdom #writing-craft #life

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.' ↗

— Donny Most

#could #dramatic #dramatic work #guess #i

Georgie?” He reached out with both hands to steady her—and himself. His mind had trouble focusing. He couldn’t believe Georgie was actually standing in front of him. She looked liked an angel—in knee-high biker boots. Those boots looked even better in real life than in his imagination. He gazed into her eyes and was filled with so many emotions, so many things he wanted to say to her, he didn’t know where to start. “I like your shoes,” he said. ↗

— Jennifer Shirk

#imagination

But we disposable women have to be realistic in this life, you know. Else we get itchy and discontented and start contemplating the kitchen knife and wondering whether it wouldn't look nicer between someone's shoulder-blades. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#women #life

There were certain moments upon which the whole of the future course of one's life might turn. And almost inevitably they popped out at one without any warning at all, leaving one with no time to consider or engage in a reasoned debate with oneself. One had to make a split second decision, and much depended upon it. Perhaps everything. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#future #moments #life

Good digestions, the gray monotony of provincial life, and the boredom—ah the soul-destroying boredom—of long days of mild content. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#mundane #the-flies #zeus #life

Christian submitted to the roll of his eyes, the churn of his stomach, the break in his knees. He willingly fell out of consciousness, surrendering his heart to the blackness. She was gone. He was gone. Life on earth didn't matter anymore. ↗

— Allie Burke

#paranormal-romance #life

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display. ↗

— Nadeem Aslam

#literature #philosophy #home

The 'swapping' is interesting. This practice one had thought confined to certain earnest Americans in the smaller, more tedious cities, to those wives and husbands who had read sex manuals and radically wanted more of life even if it had to be, like pizza, brought in from around the corner--all of this was accomplished by Bloomsbury in the lightest, most spontaneous and good-natured manner. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#virginia-woof #writing #life

But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the sky-line…endless monotony. Oh, does life ever frighten you, Anne, with its blankness…its swarms of cold, uninteresting people? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#life