#affair

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone. ↗

— Celia Johnson

#anyone #autobiography #because #frank #frank sinatra

She had streaked blonde hair, long and straight, parted in the middle framing high cheek bones, an aquiline nose and beautiful deep blue eyes. She was young, around 30, tall and lithe with a good body, athletic, not skinny. She wore a sleeveless black dress that exposed her toned arms and shoulders, indicating regular workouts or yoga. There was a hint of vein running the length of her lean muscle. This girl stood out like an arabian in a corral full of draft horses. ↗

— Nick Hahn

#affair #arabian #blonde #corral #horses

Mothers do not have love affairs. Before their children they have dreams, and after their children they have delusions. If the father is involved somewhere, they have fantasies. ↗

— Bauvard

#family #fathers #funny #humor #love-affairs

She says it's really not very flattering to her that the women who fall in love with her husband are so uncommonly second-rate. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#love #marriage #women #love

Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her torch trail across to the opposite side of the common like the tail-light of a low car driving away. ↗

— Graham Greene

#love #sex #death

While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn. ↗

— Frances Bean Cobain

#biological #generally #gross #her #i

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair. ↗

— Robert Frost

#love #love affair #never #never take #notes

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me. ↗

— Evelyn Underhill

#amusements #concerned #fail #forgetting #his

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. ↗

— Emily Carr

#all things #bored #eternal #eternal love #expected

Always guarding one's real, precious self in a cocoon of tranquility within a thousand masks. Life itself had become a secret affair. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#life #mask #secret #life