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Quotes About Joy

Find what makes your heart sing and create your own music.
~ Mac Anderson
The concerto's beauty was even more impassioned than he remembered, and also more piteous and quiet and restrained, and he clasped his hands together to absorb both the grief and joy in his body.
~ Madeleine Thien
The young man murmured in his sleep and said, "Dear Sparrow," and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.
~ Madeleine Thien
I hope you found pleasure in it at least. I have always thought impulsive pleasure was the best kind.
~ Madeline Hunter
If you do not flirt, how will you manage this marriage you anticipate making next season?" "I expect I will dance with her at balls a few times, call on her a few times, then propose." "How dreadful you make it sound. Poor girl." "Dreadful? Poor girl? She will be a duchess. Her family will be delirious with joy.
~ Madeline Hunter
one of the joys of marriage is that one can be bad again.
~ Madeline Hunter
You are the husband of my heart, and the love of my life. Wherever I am, whatever I do, you are joined with me and I with you. The part of me that matters will live with you forever. I accept the chain that binds us with joy, because in this unity I have known the purest freedom.
~ Madeline Hunter
Creativity is the language of childhood and we don't want to miss a word.
~ Unknown
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, & our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
~ Madeline Miller
He smiled, and his face was like the sun.
~ Madeline Miller
This, I say. This and this. The way his hair looked in summer sun. His face when he ran. His eyes, solemn as an owl at lessons. This and this and this. So many moments of happiness, crowding forward.
~ Madeline Miller
I found myself grinning until my cheeks hurt, my scalp prickling till I thought it might lift off my head. My tongue ran away from me, giddy with freedom. This, and this, and this, I said to him. I did not have to fear that I spoke too much. I did not have to worry that I was too slender, or too slow. This and this and this! I taught him how to skip stones, and he taught me how to carve wood. I could feel every nerve in my body, every brush of air against my skin.
~ Madeline Miller
As if he heard me, he smiled, and his face was like the sun.
~ Madeline Miller
Imagine such a happiness. Like drinking wine your whole life, instead of water. Like having Achilles to run your errands.
~ Madeline Miller
This, and this and this. We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but each other.
~ Madeline Miller
Into such miseries, your son came. Bright as a sunrise, sweet as ripe fruit.
~ Madeline Miller
Aquiles sonríe cuando su rostro cae sobre la tierra.
~ Madeline Miller
I wanted to roll on the grass like a dog.
~ Madeline Miller
When he smiled, the skin at the corners of his eyes crinkled like a leaf held to flame.
~ Madeline Miller
and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.
~ Madeline Miller
He smiled his easy smile, his honest one He smiled and his face was like the sun
~ Madeline Miller
Imagine such a happiness. Like drinking wine your whole life, instead of water.
~ Madeline Miller
I knew how pleasure looked on him.
~ Madeline Miller
We were like gods at the dawning of the world, and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but each other
~ Madeline Miller