#miles

Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. ↗

— Ovid

#jupiter #lovers #smiles

My tears are like a whole pack of dogs on leashes; no matter how I try to tug them back, they just keep barreling forward. ↗

— Holly Schindler

#beauty

Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#love #smiles #life

In my experience, milady, we can never get back to exactly where we started, no matter how hard we try. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#miles #vorkosigan #experience

I go to seek a Great Perhaps. ↗

— François Rabelais

#french-renaissance-writer #john-green #last-words #life #looking-for-alaska

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#cooking #fragrance #humor #idealism #metaphors

London opens to you like a novel itself. [...] It is divided into chapters, the chapters into scenes, the scenes into sentences; it opens to you like a series of rooms, door, passsage, door. Mayfair to Piccadilly to Soho to the Strand. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#geography #literary-london #london #metropolis #similes

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#dunford #julia-quinn #love #minx #regency

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind. ↗

— Brigid Lowry

#life #miles #life

The wind blew my words away from you. So while I told you I love you, the phrase was carried in the opposite direction and landed 333 miles away in the ears of a confused farmer. He was nice, though. He sent me a kind letter saying that while he was flattered, I wasn’t really his type. 
 ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#distance #farmer #farmers #kindness #land