Saturday, 13 August 2016

Island in the sea - Anita Hughes

Maybe she would finally meet a guy who loved homemade soup and the farmer's market and watching Italian movies on netflix. 
The fastest way to end the human race is to conduct love affairs through a metallic device that Autocorrects every original thought.
Poetry has to hit you like an arrow in a bull's eye; if it lands just to the left it may as well never have been written. 
But marriage is serious and I want the resources to make her happy. I want everyday to be filled with good food and laughter and the feeling we are building something together. 
That's the great thing about love. You never know when you'll find it but when you do you feel like you've waited all your life for that moment. 
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She had always loved the feeling of camaraderie, like she was part of a team. 
Some people think life is laid out in a preordained path and all we have to do is follow it. But God has better things to do than plot the future of seven billion people like a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure. He gave us a better-developed brain than any other species and more than two thousand years of written history to guide us. And we still manage to bloody mess everything up.  
The problem with getting old is one confuses age with wisdom and there are fewer people who tell you when you make a mistake.  

Whenever I can, I note down beautiful phrases and words from the books I read.  This shall be the first of many to come!

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