queenosheba’s most recent Quotables

Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to."

True friends stab you in the front.

True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you.

Love that we cannot have is the one that lasts the longest, hurts the deepest and feels the strongest.

A smile is a light in the window of a face which shows that the heart is at home.

Who, being loved, is poor?

There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few that will catch your heart. Pursue them.

The Fates have given mortals hearts that can endure.

I have had my shirts altered so I can wear my heart on my sleeve.

When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love.

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

Anyone who is in love is making love the whole time, even when they’re not. When two bodies meet, it is just the cup overflowing. They can stay together for hours, even days. They begin the dance one day and finish it the next, or - such is the pleasure they experience - they may never finish it. No eleven minutes for them.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

There are such beings in the World perhaps... Where Grace & Spirit are united to Worth, where the Manners are equal to the Heart & Understanding, but such a person may not come in your way, or if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a Man of Fortune, the Brother of your particular friend & belonging to your own Country.

"There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person."
"Not till the reserve ceases towards one's self; and then the attraction may be the greater."

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews
Not to be born is the best for man.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Life itself is something to fall in love with.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.