“But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even a taste for it, are tormented by the fear that somehow or other they will one day find themselves drunk, so Isabelle perpetually feared that she might be betrayed into an impulsive act that was destructive to such order as reason had imposed on life. Therefore she was forever running her faculty of analysis over in her mind with the preposterous zeal of an adolescent running a razor over his beardless chin.” PeopleMindSometimesReasonMightHappensRunningOrderForeverHabitTasteOne DayDrinkingAlcoholDrunkAnalysisDestructiveFacultyBetrayedZealChinsRazorsDrinking AlcoholImpulsive Book:The Thinking Reed Source: The Thinking Reed
“A fine lady; by which term I wish to express the result of that perfect education in taste and manner, down to every gesture, which heaven forbid that I, professing to be a poet, should undervalue. It is beautiful, and therefore I welcome it in the name of the author of all beauty. I value it so highly that I would fain see it extend not merely from Belgravia to the tradesman's villa, but thence, as I believe it one day will, to the laborer's hovel and the needlewoman's garret.” ShouldBelieveBeautifulValuesNamesI BelieveHeavenWishTermPerfectResultsPoetFineTasteOne DayWelcomeGesturesLaborersVillaFine Lady Book:Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiograhpy Source: Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiograhpy
“One day we wake up and we are broken. We taste it in our morning kiss. Our mirror tells us the same stories in separate hours: things will never be the same.” StoriesHoursMorningBrokenTasteOne DayKissingWake UpMirrors Author:Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
“We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.” NextSweetTasteOne DayWork OutMilkSourRefrigeratorsSour Milk Book:Thieves' Paradise Source: Thieves' Paradise