Posted by: Marianna Mansueto
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
She attracted him more than he liked.
from the book "" by Jane Austen
She attracted him more than he liked.
Stories are like spiders, with long legs, and are like the spider's webs in which man remains tangled, but if you look at them under a leaf, in the morning dew, they seem so pretty with that elagant way of connecting to each other, so very tight.
As a burglar I was worthless, but as a liar I must confess that I have always been an artist.
It happens to everyone, especially to the young, to think of having the world by the neck, and sometimes it's true. But at the same moment that someone is convinced everything is going for the best, there are some statistical laws that work at their backs ready to rip them off.
When we don't seem to think about nothing, acyually we think about what we care. The love is like gravity force: invisible and universal, like the physical one. Inevitably our heart, our eyes, our words, without realizing it end up there, on what we love, like the apple with the gravity.
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
And he piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the rage and hate felt by his whole race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.
"You've a good heart," she told him. "Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go." Then she shook her head. "But mostly, it's not."
If a doctor had been present, perhaps he would have been able to stop the haemorrhaging that took Penelope's life, while she shrieked and scratched at the locked door, on the other side of which her father wept in silence and her mother cowered, staring at her husband. (...) When at last they opened the door and found Penelope lying dead in a pool of her own blood, hugging a shining, purple-coloured baby, nobody was capable of uttering a single word.
Pain changes people.