Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard Quotes

#1. If you safeword during my cuddling I will judge you." He frowned menacingly, and she snorted but settled into his arms. "You're lucky that dubious-consent cuddling is only on my soft-limit list." "Tolerate the love.

Sparrow Beckett

#2. I take comfort in these reflections, since I can't take comfort in life.

Fernando Pessoa

#3. If you're not actively involved in getting what you want, you don't really want it.

Peter McWilliams

#4. People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one who knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

Colum McCann

#5. [about a book lent by a crush]
Last night I read into the wee small hours. Fell asleep with my face in the book, my nose pressed up against the print. Could smell Sean on the pages, the lingering odours from his sportsbag. Man scent, liniment, damp earth.

Bob Condron

#6. I suspect anyway that the important things we learn we never remember because they become a part of us, we absorb them ... we don't absorb multiplication tables.

William Alexander Percy

#7. A writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.

Nadine Gordimer

#8. In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements.

C.S. Lewis