Edward Bawden Quotes & Sayings

Life punishes those who come too late. — Mikhail Gorbachev

When she awakes, she knows where she is. This place, this ancient place sears one's soul with recognition. 'Heaven' seems an inadequate word for it, but that is what it is known as. — Victoria Kahler

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion. — Naomi Wolf

For the first time, she became vividly aware of how much of her life she had spent with her husband. It had been a period of time utterly devoid of happiness and spontaneity. A time that she'd so far managed to get through only by using up every last reserve of perseverance and consideration. All of it self-inflicted. — Han Kang

My blog readership grew steadily as I started to dump more of my inner self onto the page. I — Amanda Palmer

Trust is like that. Once you lose it, you begin to adjust your attitudes toward people, you put up guards, and filter the information you want them to know. — Gilly Macmillan

When our fears collided so did our souls. — Shana Vanterpool

I don't interest myself that much. — Trisha Yearwood

We will have no jobs if we have no planet. — Sharan Burrow

Eve turned away as a whispered "yes, ma'am" reached her ears. She closed her eyes and breathed deeply. Why was she saving this asshole? Eve opened her eyes and unlocked the heavy steel bolt securing the five-by-two slab of oak. She looked back, ready to give him the signal to haul ass, when all the air punched from her lungs.
Naked.
It was the only word her stunned mind could form. Eve spun in place, and her rear bumped against the door. Guerin stood there, completely nude, with his briefs and coat in his grip.
"W-wh-what are you doing?" Dear God, she was stuttering like a young girl who'd never seen "boy parts" before. — Jessica Lee

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn! — Ezra Pound

I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it. — Rachel Bilson

I burn for you. Do you know what that is, lass? To feel a yearning that makes you burn both inside and
out? — Samantha James

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects. — Michael Hansmeyer

Modern critics, who refuse to let a plain thing alone, have now started a theory that Cervantes's work is a vast piece of "symbolism." If so, Cervantes didn't know it himself and nobody thought of it for three hundred years. He meant it as a satire upon the silly romances of chivalry. — Stephen Leacock