Letters Quotes - Page 37

• It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

  Victor Hugo

  Three, Knows, Radiant

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.651, Modern Library

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• This is the most important thing I will ever say to you. The human mind is the ultimate testing device. You can take all the notes you want on the technical data, anything you forget you can look up again, but this must be engraved on your hearts in letters of fire. There is nothing, nothing, nothing, more important to me in the men and women I train than their absolute personal integrity. Whether you function as welders or inspectors, the laws of physics are implacable lie detectors. You may fool men. You will never fool metal. That’s all.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Lying, Integrity, Heart

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• Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this.

  C. S. Lewis

  Kings, Cutting, Mind

  C.S.Lewis (2016). “The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair”, p.112, ENRICH CULTURE GROUP LIMITED

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• In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

  Robert Bringhurst

  Horse, Jobs, Book

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• Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.

  Derek Walcott

  Heart, Mirrors, Ignored

  Derek Walcott (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan

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• The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men in general, before they must die. That is the amulet which preserves individuals — and sometimes populations — not from danger, but from the fear of danger, in reality from the belief in danger, which in some cases allows them to brave it without being brave. Such a confidence, just as unfounded, supports the lover who counts on a reconciliation, a letter.

  Marcel Proust

  Reality, Men, Support

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• Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.

  Stephen King

  Made, Crooked

  Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.514, Simon and Schuster

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• But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip, discuss the myriad mental shortcomings of sergeants and, dearest of all, talk about the female of the species (we became convinced that there was no such creatures, just mythology created by inflamed imaginations - one boy in our company claimed to have seen a girl, over at regimental headquarters; he was unanimously judged a liar and a braggart).

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Girl, Liars, Writing

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• In a Man's Letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirrour of his breast.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Men, Soul

  "The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume III: 1777-1781".

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• Still, I wonder if we shall ever be put into songs or tales. We're in one, of course; but I mean: put into words, you know, told by the fireside, or read out loud of a great big book with red and black letters, years and years afterwards. And people will say: 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring' and they'll say 'Oh yes, that's one of my favorite stories.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Book, Mean

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• For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Sight, Years

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Collected Novels of Virginia Woolf - Volume II - Between the Acts, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando”, p.290, Read Books Ltd

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• Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the suddenness of certain happy solutions, such as had been brought to me by Gilberte's letter. Happy, or at least seemingly happy, for there are few that can really be happy when we are dealing with a sentiment of such a kind that any satisfaction we can give it does no more, as a rule, than dislodge some pain. And yet sometimes a respite is granted us, and we have for a little while the illusion of being healed.

  Marcel Proust

  Pain, Eye, Love Is

  Marcel Proust (1981). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, New York : Random House

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• It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Love, Sad, Broken Heart

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• Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Color, Gone Away, Dresses

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.76, Penguin

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• Aria: I went to Hollis. Because I was looking for...you know. Her. She was teaching an art class, so I ran inside, grabbed a paintbrush, and painted a scarlet A across her chest. You know, like that woman in The Scarlet Letter? It was awesome. She didn't know what hit her. And then I said, 'Now everyone will know what you've done'. Ella: Do you realize that Hester Prynne is supposed to be a sympathetic character?

  Sara Shepard

  Art, Teaching, Character

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• You haven't got a letter on yours," George observed. "I suppose she thinks you don't forget your name. But we're not stupid-we know we're called Gred and Forge.

  J. K. Rowling

  Stupid, Humor, Thinking

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• How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.

  W. H. Auden

  Writing, Winning, Paper

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• We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.

  Douglas Coupland

  Inspirational, Strength, Fate

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.82, Hachette UK

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• When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

  David McCullough

  Husband, Grief, Writing

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• Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.

  Virginia Woolf

  Brave, Lost, Forlorn

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.783, Delphi Classics

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• And if kisses in these words could travel too, Madam, you'd read this letter with your lips.

  Edmond Rostand

  Kissing, Lips, Ifs

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• Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dance, Heart, Ballet Class

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• Sometimes he would advise me to read poetry, and would send me in his letters quantities of verses and whole poems, which he wrote from memory. 'Read poetry,' he wrote: 'poetry makes men better.' How often, in my later life, I realized the truth of this remark of his! Read poetry: it makes men better.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Memories, Men, Sometimes

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• Once the inner connection is grasped, all theoretical belief in the permanent necessity of existing conditions collapses before their collapse in practice -- Letter to Ludwig Kugelmann (July 11, 1868)

  Karl Marx

  July, Practice, Connections

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• What is this gypsy passion for separation, this readiness to rush off when we've just met? My head rests in my hands as I realize, looking into the night that no one turning over our letters has yet understood how completely and how deeply faithless we are, which is to say: how true we are to ourselves.

  Marina Tsvetaeva

  Passion, Night, Hands

  Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.32, Carcanet

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