Current mood: craving mead.
“Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all.”
“Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.”
“All of women‘s aspirations – whether for education, work or any form of self-determination – ultimately rest on their ability to decide whether and when to bear children.”
The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow
The "feminine" woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow
“...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”
“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
"I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I‘m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage."
“Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”
"'No, you were not mistaken,' she said slowly, looking despairingly into his cold face. 'You were not mistaken. I was, and cannot help being, in despair. I listen to you but I am thinking of him. I love him, I am his mistress, I cannot endure you. I am afraid of you, and I hate you. Do what you like to me'"
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
"Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I‘ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn‘t matter. I feel like writing."
"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
An American tragedy is when your mother "borrows" your Radiohead CD and replaces it with Counting Crows.
"And yet, before he had ever earned any money at all, he had always told himself that if only he had a better collar, a nicer shirt, a good suit, a swell overcoat, like some boys had!"
"A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
You'll miss her when she's gone."
An American Tragedy is being in desperate need of coffee and the diner only having decaf. #caffeineaddictproblems
"Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale."
"It's lovely to know that the world can't interfere with the world inside your head."
"For to say the truth, Clyde had a soul that was not destined to grow up. He lacked decidedly that mental clarity and inner directing application that in so many permits them to sort out from the facts and avenues of life the particular things or things that make for their direct advancement."
"Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve."
Hunky Mark Twain.