41 quotes found
“Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet.”
“For the broken hearts,I promise it gets better.I promise that the minutes and hours will go by faster and that the ache in your chest will stop.I promise that the day you can forgive and realize th...”
“Writing to her, I was no longer lonely... I could tolerate anything as long as I had a notepad and a pen and could pour my heart out to her in these letters.”
“But writing is a queer business. If one does anything that is sharp and keep enough to go over the line, to get itself with the work that is taken seriously, one has to have had either an unusual k...”
“We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.”
“During these three months I have gone through much; I mean, I have gone through much in myself; and now there are the things I am going to see and go through. There will be much to be written.”
“Eleven pages this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.”
“Ive wanted everything in my life to change for so long, and when its finally about to, my urge to escape slows down. I think thats why people stay unhappy for so long, you know? Miserable or not, i...”
“If you do not want to write, at least spit on a piece of paper, put it in an envelope, and send it to me. You are not taking any notice of me at all. God forgive you all I wanted was a few words f...”
“To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..”
“...How I adore you and want you. You can't know how much...I love belonging to you-- I glory in it, that you alone have bent me to your will, shattered my self-possession, robbed me of my mystery, ...”
“Nothing and no one in the world could kill the love I have for you. I have surrendered my whole individuality, the very essence of my being to you. I have given you my body time after time to treat...”
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”
“Some people write letters, in the library.”
“Nothing is as endearing as a handwritten letter scribed by the person who holds your heart spellbound.”
“[Letter to William Ward, 11 July 1878]Dear Boy, Why don’t you write to me? I don’t know what has become of you.As for me I am ruined. The law suit is going against me and I am afraid I will have to...”
“Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.”
“Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious”
“Eleven pages— this is a letter! Have courage. I'm going to stop.”
