"In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement."
Unknown
"People left a lot of things behind when they went in the water. Their clothes, their stuff, their makeup, their fixed-up hair, their voices, their hearing, their sight—at least as the normally experienced them."
Ann Brashares
Inspiration
Of course, some might argue that one can never know what's in the heart of a woman— For they are strange and mysterious creatures,and a man must be a mind reader if he ever wishes to make them happy.
Author
"They would repair the leaks in their eyes."
Tim O'Brien
"Be with someone that makes you happy... STRIKE THAT...Be Someone that makes you happy."
Raymond D. Longoria Jr.
Inspiration
Without art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without science, we should always worship false gods.
W.H. Auden
"Death is fugitive; even when you're watching for it, the actual instant somehow slips between your fingers. You don't get that sudden drop of the head you see in movies. Instead you simply sit there, waiting for something to happen, and all at once you realize you've missed it."
Jonathan Stroud
Inspiration
Everybody undertakes what he sees another successful in whether he has the aptitude for it or not.
Author
"A memory can taint your dreams."
Abilash Balan
"He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich."
Robert A. Heinlein
Inspiration
If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto.
Carmen Fox
"It used to upset me - now it makes me sad - to see people use patriotism and our troops as a pawn in their political argument. Because I know personally, growing up in a military family, the sacrifice that is made on a daily basis."
Tamron Hall