Maybe it's a Movie

Sometimes you read something or hear something that just sticks with you. Maybe it's because it holds resounding truth and applies to circumstances previously experienced or currently proceeding.  Maybe it is that those precise words strung together paint a picture in your mind that so clearly portrays an emotion you cannot help but smile at. Maybe you smile because you have already experienced the emotion. Or maybe because it is one that you have yet to know but would like to someday.

Words are rich; they are powerful. I long to have a better mastery over them, but thankfully I'm still learning.
The expression, "sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," is a complete and utter lie.

After I heard this particular line in one of my newly discovered addictions that is a television show, I decided then and there that I would start keeping track of phrases or passages that happen to strike a chord in me, whether it be for one of the reasons I mentioned previously or whether it is merely because I thought it a neat and intelligent thing to say. So, here we go.
"Maybe that's it, maybe life's not a picture. Maybe it's a movie. And I for one am curious to see how this one ends." George Tucker in Hart of Dixie.

[[I happen to be reading a love story at the moment, so that is perhaps a theme in some of these next few. However, I find them pointed and interesting. I do not think I have read an author who goes into these seemingly minute but in reality quite decisive and necessary details in quite some time. When I came across these lines in the book, I said either in my head, or many times out loud, "Woah, that was really cool."]]
"They entered, each with a demeanour intended to conceal the inconcealable fact that reciprocal love was their dominant chord."
"For of all the miseries attaching to miserable love, the worst is the misery of thinking that the passion which is the cause of them all may cease."
"Never were conditions more favourable for developing a girl's first passing fancy for a handsome boyish face--a fancy rooted in inexperience and nourished by seclusion--into a wild unreflecting passion fervid enough for anything. All the elements of such a development were there, the chief one being hopelessness--a necessary ingredient always to perfect the mixture of feelings united under the name of loving to distraction."
"Rapture is often cooled by contact with its cause, especially if under awkward conditions."
"Decisive action is seen by appreciative minds to be frequently objectless, and sometimes fatal; but decision, however suicidal, has more charm for a woman than the most unequivocal Fabian success."
"Circumstance, as usual, did it all."
"It is more vexing to be misunderstood than to be misrepresented; and he misunderstands me. I cannot be easy whilst a person goes to rest night after night attributing to me intentions I never had."
"Anybody's life may be just as romantic and strange and interesting if he or she fails as if he or she succeed. All the difference is, that the last chapter is wanting in the story. If a man or power tries to do a great deed, and just falls short of it by an accident not his fault, up to that time his history had as much in it as that of a great man who has done his great deed."
"It is with cliffs and mountains as with persons; they have what is called a presence, which is not necessarily proportionate to their actual bulk. A little cliff will impress you powerfully' a great one not at all. It depends, as with man, upon the countenance of the cliff."
"Nature seems to have moods in other than a poetical sense: predilections for certain deeds at certain times, without any apparent law to govern or season to account for them. She is read as a person with a curious temper; as one who does not scatter kindnesses and cruelties alternately, impartially, and in order, but heartless severities or overwhelming generosities in lawless caprice. Man's case is always that of the prodigal's favourite or the miser's pensioner. In her unfriendly moments there seems a feline fun in her tricks, begotten by a foretaste of her pleasure in swallowing the victim."
"We colour according to our moods the objects we survey. The sea would have been a deep neutral blue had happier auspices attended the gazer: it was now no otherwise than distinctly black to his vision."
"Love is faith, and faith, like a gathered flower, will rootlessly live on."
Thomas Hardy in A Pair of Blue Eyes

As it is so now, I am not yet finished with the book. To be fair to the quotations that equally deserve such a publication that I have not yet reached, there may be another post of this nature. I was trying to finish the book and put all of them in one post, but other things have since acted as a road block to that feat. Also I thought it time that there was another post.

Spring is coming!!!!!! Happy March :)

Cheers!

~Sarah