“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via books-n-quotes)
Tag: quote & words
“I loved you
because
it was easier
than
loving myself.”— Nayyirah Waheed
(via growaglow)
“She gave Lady a quick little hug. Lady licked her cheek. Sansa giggled.”
— Sansa I, AGOT (via booksansastark)
saintmichaelthearchangel-moved:
““The gods are cruel to take him so young and handsome, at his own wedding feast,” Lady Tanda had said to her.
The gods are just, thought Sansa. Robb had died at a wedding feast as well. It was Robb she wept for. Him and Margaery. Poor Margaery, twice wed and twice widowed.”—
Sansa, A Storm Of Swords (Chapter 61)
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Sansa is so empathetic here. Despite what went down with the Tyrells, she still feels strong sympathy and understands that it must be awful to be widowed twice. She is also quite sincere in her sympathy for her as well.
“She had such a thirst for destruction,”
— Marcel Proust, from The Complete Works; “In Search of Lost Time,”
“Too painful a wound for me to be able to talk about it.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, tr. by Justin O’Brien, from “The Woman Destroyed,”
“I am not a bird or a symbol.
I am a woman burning.”— Katie Longofono, from We Grind Ourselves Out in “Angeltits”
“Would ‘sorry’ have made any difference? Does it ever? It’s just a word. One word against a thousand actions.”
— Sarah Ockler (via hplyrikz)
“Cold, cold, cold, intolerably cold and sweet.”
— Louis Untermeyer, from “Toward the Piraeus,” written c. September 1940
(via violentwavesofemotion)
“I am, I thought, a tragedy;”
— Mary Shelley, from “Mathilda,” originally published c. October 1819
life is not a song 