#som

To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. ↗

— Phyllis Theroux

#go #good #good way #heart #letter

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. ↗

— Mark Twain

#conversation #each #effort #let us #make

It argued a special genius; he was clearly a case of that. The spark of fire, the point of light, sat somewhere in his inward vagueness as a lamp before a shrine twinkles in the dark perspective of a church; and while youth and early middle-age, while the stiff American breeze of example and opportunity were blowing upon it hard, had made the chamber of his brain a strange workshop of fortune. This establishment, mysterious and almost anonymous, the windows of which, at hours of highest pressure, never seemed, for starers and wonderers, perceptibly to glow, must in fact have been during certain years the scene of an unprecedented, a miraculous white-heat, the receipt for producing which it was practically felt that the master of the forge could not have communicated even with the best intentions. ↗

— Henry James

#age

Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night. ↗

— Yukio Mishima

#communication

When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look. ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#be true #careful #good #look #nothing

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us. ↗

— Maude Adams

#best #day #enough #hard #hard thing

It would be so nice to be wanted by someone with the courage to get his hat or stay as he damn pleased, and who gave her credit for the same. Someone who didn't worry about her. ↗

— Thomas Harris

#pleased #someone #wanted #worry #courage

You can be the best person in the league but if you don't win championships, something's missing. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#championships #league #missing #person #something

When I was four or five, I would organise my cars and my action figures. I needed some kind of structure, I think. ↗

— Alexander Skarsgard

#cars #figures #five #four #i

I don't care what people say about how I look or even their opinion on my relationship. But the moment you judge my character is when we have a problem. ↗

— Rachelle Friedman

#bully #character #courage #courage