Chertovka Quotes & Sayings

At least you can say you were in on the last days of Morocco," he told her. "How's your tea? Finished? I think we ought to be going. — Paul Bowles

No sense in talking tough unless you do it. — Helena Maria Viramontes

That curiously clean, semi-transparent look of the genteel, isolated poor. — D.H. Lawrence

Feng Shui is all about the subconscious interaction between planetary and mental energies. — Stefan Emunds

She would have liked to love. It was terrible to think she had never loved her son as a man. Sometimes her hands would wrestle together. They were supple, rather plump hands, broad and not yet dry. But wrestling like this together, they were papery and dried-up. Then she would force herself into some deliberate activity or speak tenderly to her good husband, offering him things to eat, and seeing to his clothes. She loved her husband. Even after the drudgery of love she could still love him. But sometimes she lay on her side and said, I have not loved him enough, not yet, he has not seen the evidence of love. It would have been simpler if she had been able to turn and point to the man their son, but she could not. — Patrick White

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident. — Clifford D. Simak

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. — H.L. Mencken