Leaves - Quotes
Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed - sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it`s going to be.
What I’m really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all.
Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can`t see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
A wise girl kisses but doesn`t love, listens but doesn`t believe, and leaves before she is left.
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.