Quotes About Letters

When I write, I hold nothing back. I write like he'll never read it. Because he never will. Every secret thought, every careful observation, everything I've saved up inside me, I put it all in the letter. When I'm done, I seal it. I address it, and then I put it in my teal hatbox.

Love letters. Of all the things I save, I guess you could say my love letters are my most prized possession.

They're not love letters in the strictest sense of the word. My letters are for when I don't want to be in love anymore. They're for good-bye.

I can sing along to love songs and not be singing them to him. If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms. My letters set me free. Or at least they're supposed to.

I'm pretty sure I at least said hello." Teasingly he says, "No, I'm pretty sure you didn't." He's right: I didn't. I was too flustered. Kind of like right now. IT must be that distance between knowing someone when you were a kid and seeing them now that you're both more grown-up, but still not all the way grown-up, and there are all these years and letters in between you, and you don't know how to act.

If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exorcisms. My letters set me free. Or at least they're supposed to.

They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.

My wife wrote me letters when we first met. We would meet every day, or nearly every day, but still she would write me letters. She thought the person she was in her letters was someone she herself did not know until the letter was written, and then it was like she was meeting herself.

My first letter to Rolian had opened a floodgate, however, and the Roulaini king had begun writing me other letters, rather admiring ones. Marta and Alle, our assistant, were teasing me about having a second royal suitor. But

That is a generation's difference these days," Ferdinand continued. "A lifetime's difference. A thousand years' difference. What do you children understand of existence? You're afraid even of your own feelings. You don't write letters—you telephone; you don't dream—you go for week-end excursions; you are rational in love and irrational in politics—a pitiable race.

Sela je za svoj sto i izvadila pribor za pisanje. - Ljubljeni, pisala je, ti sa nejasnim licem, nepoznati, koji nikad nisi došao, stalno o?ekivani, zar ne ose?aš kako vreme izmi?e? A onda je prestala da piše i odgurnu kasetu u kojoj su ležala mnoga neposlata pisma, pisma za koje nije znala adrese - pogleda u beli list pred sobom i pomisli: zašto pla?em? Time se ionako ništa ne može izmeniti...

If a four-letter man marries a five-letter woman, he was thinking, what number of letters would their children be?

with bad painters all you need to do is not look at them. but even when you have learned not to look at families nor listen to them and have learned not to answer letters, families have many ways of being dangerous.

Letters from the first were planned to guide us into Fairy Land.

Like many men who experience fatherhood relatively late in life, Martin Luther was a devoted parent. Luther wrote his children letters of touching intensity, patiently converting the joys of the Christian life into a language of storytelling fit for the very young. A home with children brought out the best in Luther in a way that theological disputation patently did not.

epistolary friendship

Fitzgerald's attachment to those who had shared his time and experience here on earth, his sense of identity with them, his caring---that is perhaps the final burden and beauty of these letters.

The 379 letters from Tell el-Amarna ... are cuneiform tablets ... date from around 1385-1355 BCE ... include Canaanite glosses ... from the scribes' mother tongue on the Akkadian which they wrote.

I have received so many letters, messages, emails, testimonies of women whom I meet in international conferences, wherever it may be, who tell me, 'It's great that you have balanced life and work so successfully.' I now think I have underestimated that, the 'role model' aspect of my life, I must say.

I have an almost entirely written correspondence with a few friends of mine who are really busy. We exchange quite long and sometimes quite whimsical, sometimes quite meaningful, sometimes silly letters.

I didn't realize how famous I got since I went to prison. I got fan letters, but I didn't realize it blew up like that.

I get racist letters all the time from people who aren't Bradford City supporters. You just laugh at them, tear them up and throw them in the bin.

I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.

I really felt good after working in a film like 'Piku,' as many people could relate to my character. I got letters from my fans telling me how my character resembles to their grandparents.