Quotes About Old Love Letters

#1. Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them.

Jodi Picoult

#2. Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.

Mary Schmich

#3. If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

Mignon McLaughlin

#4. Do you still - " He scratched behind his ear. "Do you still want me to come back with you? Now that I'm ... that I ... " He sucked in a quick breath. "Do you still want me?" Wolf seemed like he was in pain. Actual pain. Her heart softened. "Wol - " She paused and swallowed. "Ze'ev." His

Marissa Meyer

#5. The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#6. It might well kill me one of these days, but so might other less pleasant things.

Lisa Mantchev

#7. I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#8. There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. I am mad, I think. I am mad therefore I think. I am mad therefore I think I am.

Kate Atkinson

#10. As I started to read the 100 year old letters their story unwound and I began to share their passion for life and the love they had for one another.

Mark Wardlaw

#11. Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into our own despair.

Christopher Moore

#12. I love you more than myself, more than my own family, for Christ's sake. I don't want to take another step in this world without you next to me,

Penelope Douglas

#13. Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again.

Dennis Lehane

#14. He built a small house, called a cocoon, around himself. He stayed inside for more than two weeks. Then he nibbled a hole in the cocoon, pushed his way out and ... he was a beautiful butterfly!

Eric Carle

#15. Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact of numerous incremental studies that together paint an increasingly coherent picture of how nature works.

Michael E. Mann