“There’s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we’ve ever imagined…”
from The Hours by Michael Cunningham
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Every Sorrow
“…I’ve discovered over the years that the simplist explanation is almost always the right one; and that hunger of one kind or another–desire, by another name– is the source of almost every sorrow.”
From the book, The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud
A Wonderful Life
“You see, George, you’ve really had a wonderful life. Don’t you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away?”
Clarence speaking to George from the movie, It’s a Wonderful Life, produced and directed by Frank Capra, 1946
Clandestine
“I like the word clandestine. It feels medieval. Sometimes I think of words as being alive. If clandestine were alive, it would be a pale little girl with hair the color of fall leaves and a dress as white as the moon. ”
from the novel, Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
A quote a day for a week:3
“Small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You’re the one who has to watch for the open door.”
Donna Tartt, from the novel, The Goldfinch
Softer
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
Norman Vincent Peale
Gatsby
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves
growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies,
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning
over again with the summer.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
