Melina Marchetta quote: A home to come back to every day

Source: Dead Over Heels

“When I took up the cross I recognized it's meaning. The cross is something that you bear, and ultimately, that you die on.”

Dies Bears Crosses

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.”

Want Humans Enjoy Simple Ordinary Enjoyment Ordinary Life

Book:A Discovery of Witches: A Novel

Source: A Discovery of Witches: A Novel

“She asks if I left a girlfriend behind when we moved. I say no, and she smiles, which just about ruins me.”

Ifs Asks Left Behinds Moved Ruins Girlfriend

Author:Pittacus Lore

“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream”

Littles Dream Care Wanted Girl Taken Lovers Superiors

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.”

Fighting Loneliness Against Love

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.”

Knows Littles Enough Found Tradition Great Literary

Book:The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

Source: The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature

“Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.”

Feels Loss Taste Weight Loss Funny Diet Weight Motivational Good Weight Loss Motivation

Book:The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

Source: The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted: And Other Small Acts of Liberation

“I think it was the beginning of Mrs. Bond's unquestioning faith in me when she saw me quickly enveloping the cat till all you could see of him was a small black and white head protruding from an immovable cocoon of cloth. He and i were now facing each other, more or less eyeball to eyeball, and George couldn't do a thing about it. As i say, I rather pride myself on this little expertise, and even today my veterinary colleagues have been known to remark, "Old Herriot may be limited in many respects, but by God he can wrap a cat.”