RETRIBUTION

since when do you sit at the table without washing your hands?

you’re more trouble than you’re worth.

i like imagining better than remembering.

did either of them have a tragical romance?

she’s a case, i should say. i heard her talkin’ to herself out there.

i’d made up my mind that if you didn’t come for me, i’d go down the tracks to that big wild cherry tree and climb up into it and stay all night.

i can also imagine that i’m already a disappointment to you.

i do hope someday i shall have a white dress, with beautiful puff sleeves.

i know you and i are going to get along together just fine.

i don’t want to interrupt if you’re expecting company.

i’ve pinched myself so many times today. every little while, this horrible, sickening feeling would come over me, and i’d be so afraid that this was all a dream.

little girl, that’s enough now.

how can you call it a good night when you know this must be the very worst night i’ve ever had?

stop your snooping and come to breakfast. 

the world doesn’t seem such a howling wilderness as it did last night.

it’s all very well to read sorrowful stories and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it’s not so easy when you’re actually woeful, is it?

i’ll be back in time for tea.

isn’t pink just the most bewitching colour?

if children are such a burden, then why do people have so many of them? 

don’t you know it’s a terrible wicked thing not to say your prayers every night?

if i really wanted to pray, i’ll tell you what i’d do. i’d go into a great big field, all alone, or into the deep, deep woods, and i’d look up into the sky, up-up-up, into that lovely blue sky without end, and i would just feel a prayer.

i mean, i wouldn’t want to be picked if i were a blossom.

i don’t care if i hurt your feelings by saying so. i hope i hurt them! because you have hurt my feelings worse than they have ever been hurt before, and i will never forgive you for this! never, never!

i shall carry our secret to my grave.

i am a dreadfully wicked and ungrateful girl, and i deserve to be punished and cast out by respectable society forever!

shall we swear to be best friends forever and ever?

doodle before sleep

❛ The two hardest tests are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. ❜

❛ People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. ❜

❛ Be crazy! But learn how to be crazy without being the center of attention. Be brave enough to live different. ❜

❛ You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. ❜

❛ God chose you to be different. ❜

❛ Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude? ❜

❛ You have two choices, to control your mind or to let your mind control you. ❜

❛ Everyone is indeed crazy, but the craziest are the ones who don’t know they’re crazy; they just keep repeating what others tell them to. ❜

❛ Haven’t you learned anything, not even with the approach of death?  ❜

❛ If people don’t like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have the courage to complain, that’s their problem. ❜

❛ Nothing in this world happens by chance. ❜

❛ I want to continue living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be. ❜

❛ Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains. ❜

❛ Collective madness is called sanity. ❜

❛ Consider each day a miracle - which indeed it is, when you consider the number of unexpected things that could happen in each second of our fragile existences. ❜

❛ You say they create their own reality, but what is reality? ❜

❛ Many people don’t allow themselves to love because there are a lot of things at risk. A lot of future and a lot of past. ❜

❛ Death frees from the fear of dying. ❜

❛ The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort. ❜

❛ The happier people can be, the unhappier they are. ❜

❛ Life is always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. ❜

❛ It’s best to accept life as it really is and not as you imagined it to be. ❜

❛ You don’t seem mad at all. ❜

❛ We’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroys us. ❜

❛ You’re what you are, not what others make of you. ❜

❛ Am I cured? ❜

❛ Real love changes and grows with time and discovers new ways of expressing itself. ❜

❛ A lot of people think something is right, and so that thing becomes right. Is that it? ❜

❛ They think they’re normal, because they all do the same thing. ❜