There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.
Paulo CoelhoTags: love humour cynical bitterness ugly-truths
That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
A.S. ByattTags: human-nature bitterness murphy-s-law 1859 1990 sabine-de-kercoz
True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all.
D. MorgensternTags: love bitterness broken-heart the-golden-bridle
Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
Alain de BottonTags: forgetfulness anger bitterness
He’d thought it would be the right thing to say, but she scoffed a little… and that, more than anything—more than the prospect of having his ribs crushed in or his face pulled off or his neck stretched on a rope—scared him out of his wits.
V.S. CarnesTags: war romance bitterness defeat ransom
I know I am flaky, I accept that—and I know, as well, that I can mangle the good king’s English like no one else in my or the next ten governesses’ acquaintances, but that will not prevent me from speaking! I may not be as wise as you in the ways of the world, I may not have wounds that run as deeply or scars to wear upon my chest like medals of valor, but at least I don’t retreat and hide the moment a soul comes within reach of my fingers!
V.S. CarnesTags: fear love romance bitterness
Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.
Lynne Sharon SchwartzTags: sorrow grief bitterness parables tai-chi
Up from behind a sand dune close beside her rose the form of her enemy Bitterness. He did not come any nearer, having learned a little more prudence, and was not going to make her call for the Shepherd if he could avoid it, but simply stood and looked at her and laughed and laughed again, the bitterest sound that Much-Afraid had heard in all her life.
Hannah HurnardTags: bitterness
Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?
J.R.R. TolkienTags: sadness cynicism metaphor bitterness
Four girls about Mira's age were standing out on the deck on the upper level of the ferry. They were wearing hoodies, sweatpants and jeans. One of the girls was staring at the screen on her phone. She was talking. He called, but then said he wasn't going to come out or whatever. They sipped out of Starbucks cups and bottles of water. The wind was in their hair and the sun was in their eyes. Because they were alive I wished they were dead.
Mark GluthTags: children death bitterness
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