I was born in the age of "alas".
Pat Conroy, South of Broad.
“It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much...”
“The tide was a poem that only time could create, and I watched it stream and brim and makes its steady dash homeward, to the ocean.”
“Great romantics are granted lots of slack.”
“I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.”
“Help them, but don't make friends with them.”
“I was trying to unravel the complicated trigonometry of the radical thought that silence could make up the greatest lie ever told.”
“Sometimes I feel like we're a knot, too tangled to be taken apart.”
“Memories of lost love they do enpain,Fleeting images of what once was never again to gain.Hold tight those memories that slip through the mind, To walk in those fields again with hera dream divi...”
“As she left the cold arena Angel had to laugh,Beaten by that of a wisp girl and her subliming cunning craft.Jove lay silent in his orbit; brooding, deep, dreamless forweep,And faithful dog Sirius r...”
“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”
“We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. Were either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel,...”
“What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.”