#sen

What else exhausts like sustained deception? ↗

— Leif Enger

#deception

Indian summer is like a woman. ↗

— Grace Metalious

#opening-lines #simile #simile

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. ↗

— نجيب محفوظ

#heart #sentimentality #skepticism #skepticism

Bless you, daugher of man," Carter said, his eyes luminous and almost silver now. He leaned down and kissed my forehead. I closed my eyes and caught my breath. His lips were both burning hot and icy cold. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#carter #georgina-mortensen #love #love

You know that first night when we stayed together here in the cabin? As sick as we were, there was no place on earth I would have rather been then here with you. ↗

— Tina Reber

#love

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What "grace" might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way? ↗

— Roland Barthes

#memory #past #present #time #biography

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#common-sense

He who must travel happily must travel light. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#common-sense #common-sense

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#morning #common-sense

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#senisibility #common-sense