“In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving … the two halves of an apparently perfect whole did not confront each other at the perfect moment; part and counterpart wandered independently about the earth in the stupidest manner for a while, till the late time came. out of which maladroit delay sprang anxieties, disappointments, shocks, catastrophes— and what was called a strange destiny".
-Thomas Hardy (Tess of the d'urbervilles)
"You shall above all things be glad and young
For if you're young, whatever life you wear
It will become you; and if you are glad
whatever's living will yourself become"
-E.E. Cummings
"I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, [...] and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together"
-Marilyn Monroe
Finally finished the Old Man and the Sea this weekend - did not find it easy going, but you have to love 'A man can be destroyed but not defeated' E.H.
ReplyDeleteYeah I've heard it's a difficult read but such a good quote!
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