#exquisite

Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#good #good reason #know #love #most

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#exquisite #had #like #music #passed

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. ↗

— Arthur Machen

#better #contemptible #department #exquisite #fail

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#bell #clear #everything #exquisite #like

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#canoe #canvas #civilisation #exquisite #find

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. ↗

— Edward Everett Hale

#doctors #ever #exquisite #form #hypocrites

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#become #books #companions #dearest #delights

Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#day #each #exquisite #fills #fresh

Some of her last words to me, Mason, were 'I believe in fate and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life, so Mason could walk into yours.” I know she can’t be wrong. ↗

— Ella Frank

#exquisite #lena-o-donnell #mason-langley #life