Peter Carey Oscar And Lucinda Quotes & Sayings

There are always those perfect times with the people we love, those moments of joy and equality that sustain us later on ... These moments are the foundation upon which we build the house that will shelter us into our final years, so that when love calls out, "How far would you go for me?" you can look it in the eye and say truthfully, "Farther than you would ever have thought was possible. — Ann Patchett

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound. — George Eliot

I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could remember even half of them. But do not dwell on cock-ups, I say. You don't learn by your mistakes - at least I don't - so best to blunder on making fresh ones. — Charles Saatchi

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul. — Robert A. Johnson

I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me. To make the pain dissolve away. I know that this was part of what had ruined everything but I wanted it once more anyway. — Francesca Lia Block

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death. — Charles De Secondat

There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. — Winston Churchill