“I wonder if you talked about me, as you went home, or thought of me when the moon rose,”
— Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vanessa Bell written c. August 1908
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“On nights like this I break my heart again,”
— Cecil John Rhodes, from “Disillusion,” published c. September 1923
“The precious intimacy of little things.”
— Daphne du Maurier, from “I Will Never Be Young Again,” published c. 1932
So, I am sorry,
for I do not
always speak
everything
that’s on my mind,
because sometimes
people refuse to hear
what they don’t want
to understand.
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“How much sweeter life would be if it all happened in reverse, if, after decades of disappointments, you finally arrived at an age when you had conceded nothing, when everything was possible.”
— Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles
“I can’t hold you and I can’t leave you,”
— Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, tr. by Judith Thurman, from “Sonnets of Love and Discretion,”
“You’re so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”
— Tracy Chevalier, Girl With A Pearl Earring
