#quite

And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts. ↗

— André Aciman

#love-and-loss #unrequited-love #love

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal. ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#romance #sherry-thomas #husband

If there are no other wonderful roles that come my way, I have a quite an interesting, dynamic life. ↗

— Karen Allen

#dynamic #i #interesting #life #other

I knew quite well, when I gave the names of our agents in the Soviet Union, that I was exposing them to the full machinery of counterespionage and the law, and then prosecution and capital punishment. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#capital #capital punishment #exposing #full #gave

My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman. ↗

— Loni Anderson

#fashion #glamorous #glass #hand #memory

I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what Raphael told me? That I didn't know how to be a good vampire, that vampires accept that they're dead. But as long as I remember what it was like to love you, I'll always feel like I'm alive. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#unrequited-love #change

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#barbarians #distributes #into #itself #just

I am quite shy and people think I'm aloof. ↗

— Kristen Stewart

#am #i #i am #people #quite

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#because #being #careful #family #i

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#escape #family #hearts #innermost #never