But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
Patrick RothfussRead
I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. That the sight of her yawning to the back of her hand was enough to drive the breath from me. How I sometimes lost the sense of her words in the sweet fluting of her voice. I wanted to say that if she were with me then somehow nothing could ever be wrong for me again.
Interpretation
The quote expresses deep admiration and affection towards someone special, emphasizing their impact on the speaker's life.
In this quote, the speaker conveys profound feelings of love and awe for an individual who brings beauty and joy into their life after a period of suffering. The vivid imagery of the person's actions and the expressive details highlight how their mere presence transforms the speaker's emotional state, suggesting that love has the power to heal and elevate one's spirit, making everything else seem insignificant.
In practice
This quote could be shared at a wedding to highlight the beauty of love's impact on life.
But how awful would that be? How terrible to live surrounded by the stark, sharp, hollowness of things that simply were enough?
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.
How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way
All the truth in the world is held in stories.
Music is a proud, temperamental mistress. Give her the time and attention she deserves, and she is yours. Slight her and there will come a day when you call and she will not answer. So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed.
He makes a July's day short as December.
When you look in the mirror and say, 'I love you,' don't worry if you don't believe it yet. Love is far more powerful than your limiting beliefs.
You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.
There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.
Our Mother Mary is full of beauty because she is full of grace.
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