Plaits Crossword Quotes & Sayings

She had denied herself the pleasure of openly sharing life with the person she loved. — Jhumpa Lahiri

They say that men who have seen the world, thereby become quite at ease in manner, quite self-possessed in company. — Herman Melville

A girl's not a watermelon you plug a hole in to see if it's sweet. — Jeffrey Eugenides

I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche. — Jeff Tweedy

Listen to them again: 'I love you.' Subject, verb, object: the unadorned, impregnable sentence. The subject is a short word, implying the self-effacement of the lover. The verb is longer but unambiguous, a demonstrative moment as the tongue flicks anxiously away from the palate to release the vowel. The object, like the subject, has no consonants, and is attained by pushing the lips forward as if for a kiss. 'I love you.' How serious, how weighted, how freighted it sounds. — Julian Barnes

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?' — Geraldine Brooks

Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process. — Gloria Steinem

When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it . — Hubert H. Humphrey

Focus your positive energy on your passion. — Lailah Gifty Akita

How the mouth of the cat carcass would shake terribly at me as the tire spun. And how, yeah, it'd be fucking awesome if a magic key came out of the cat's shaking mouth - a magical key that took me on a magical journey and ended up, somehow, with me being born as a baby eagle but like, with the mind I have now (why not). — Sam Pink