“The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.”
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning
“The faintest gleam of their lost memories glimmered for the briefest moment in their hearts.”
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl on One Beautiful April Morning
“My responsibility was to tell you the truth, not wrap you in swaddling clothes.”
Scott Lynch book The Republic of Thieves
She raised her hood again, half-veiling her face in shadow. “Nor protect you from your own badly aimed temper.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves (2013), Chapter 9 “The Five-Year Game: Reasonable Doubt” section 2 (p. 551)
“Your face is my heart Sassenach, and the love of you is my soul”
Diana Gabaldon book Drums of Autumn
Variant: Your face is my heart
Source: Drums of Autumn
Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (1683–1706) sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet
Source: Attributed, Poems of Sadness: The Erotic Verse of the Sixth Dalai Lama Tsangyang Gyatso tr. Paul Williams 2004, p.27
“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
Variant: My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.
Source: Macbeth
Gino Severini (1883–1966) Italian painter
Quote in a letter to Umberto Boccioni, 1910; as cited in Gino Severini, the Dance, 1909 – 1916, by Daniele Fonti, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; 2001, p. 15
“There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.”
W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
Source: Selected Poetry