Rileys At Los Rios Quotes & Sayings

Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives. — H.L. Mencken

The failure of art is, as we have said, not a complete failure. Substantial truth is revealed to us, we are not cheated of that; but it is revealed only in the equivocal form of beauty, submerged, so to speak, in the flood of aesthetic emotion. It is only because truth is revealed in it that the emotion is aesthetic; but emotional truth, truth in the guise of beauty, is not truth at all in the formal sense Art asserts nothing; and truth as such is matter of assertion. To be itself, it demands logical form. Art fails us because it does not assert. It is pregnant with a message that it cannot deliver. To — R.G. Collingwood

Eleanor hadn't written him a letter, it was a postcard.
Just three words long. pg. 325 — Rainbow Rowell

A government which should have no other means of exacting obedience than open war must be very near its ruin, for one of two alternatives would then probably occur: — Alexis De Tocqueville

I hope the two of you will descend from your love bubble long enough to learn something today," he sniped cuttingly and the other kids snickered. Embarrassed, I ducked my head to avoid eye contact with them.
"It's all right, sir," Xavier replied. "The bubble's been engineered to allow us to learn from within it. — Alexandra Adornetto