I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.
"Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man."
“When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband.”
We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again.
“Tourists moved over the piazza like drugged insects on a painted plate”
A handwritten, personal letter has become a genuine modern-day luxury, like a child's pony ride.
Good drama should sandpaper the mind.
The law changes and flows like water, and the stream of women's rights law has become a sudden rushing torrent.
The Sugarplum Fairy herself could have made no grander gesture.
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.
“The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.”
“The mark of a true crush Is that you fall in love first And grope for reasons afterward.”
“The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.”
Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.