Tag: quotes

“There are times when it will go so wrong that you will
barely be alive, and times when you realise that being barely alive, on
your own terms, is better than living a bloated half-life on someone
else’s terms.”

— Jeanette Winterson

When you find somebody you love, all the way through, and she loves you—even with your weaknesses, your flaws, everything starts to click into place. And if you can talk to her, and she listens, if she makes you laugh, and makes you think, makes you want, makes you see who you really are, and who you are is better, just better with her, you’d be crazy not to want to spend the rest of your life with her.

Nora Roberts, Happy Ever After

I think of you always all the time. I can see you in bed, more lovely than anything that has been at all. I love you. I love you more, even, than when I said I loved you only a few seconds ago.

Dylan Thomas, from a letter to Caitlin Thomas written c. August 1943

Be it known that you crush heads! Be it known that you devour corpses like a dog! Be it known that your gaze is terrible! Be it known that you lift your terrible gaze! Be it known that you have flashing eyes! Be it known that you are unshakeable and unyielding! Be it known that you always stand triumphant!

Enheduanna, The Exaltation of Inanna

These are lines 127-133: Sumerian version, English translation. This text in Sumerian is:

Sang ngish raraza hezuam! Urgin ad guuza hezuam! Igi hushaza hezuam! Igi hushbi ililiza hezuam! Igi gungunnaza hezuam! Uruna nushegaza hezuam! Uma gubgubbuza hezuam!