"It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four of five times in life. It faced - or seemed to face - the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on YOU with an irresistable prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
"If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane."
— John Green, Looking for Alaska
"It’s easy to rip an unsewn stitch
Or tear the thread of an untold tale—
The song of us two together."
Or tear the thread of an untold tale—
The song of us two together."
— Unknown author, from “Wulf and Eadwacer”, in The Exeter Book, trans. Craig Williamson (thanks, eusonyme)
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"I can see it now, that hand of hers; it had only one finger on it, and a thumb."
— Roald Dahl, from Man from The South (thanks, bricuri0us)
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"Not all deviance is negative; without it, we’d never change the world."
— Stacy Pershall
