445 Quotes About Prose

... endowing the imperfect and the preterite with all the sweetness which there is in generosity, all the melancholy which there is in love; guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace of the syllables so as to bring them, despite their difference in quantity, into a uniform rhythm, and breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling.

I’m a timid person and I often find myself listening and watching people. From that I create prose and stories.

Trebas mi da ti pokazem sta dve osobe mogu zajedno da stvore.

Because even when there is no hope, somehow you can still find a place to pin inside the things that you need.

It’s the silence of the night, those few minutes just before the earth wakes and the night walkers have retiredIt’s the moist dewy air; a mixture of a dull warmth entangled with a breezy coolness.It’s the humidity that fills the air and ——It’s the flashes of the movie projector as another memory emerges

The library was my only blessing. Every time I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted. All day, I looked forward to the happy hours I spent in that beautiful room. My guilt over appa's fate was too heavy to carry up there, and I learned to leave it below, somewhere on the ground floor. I left the house far behind as I walked on the path paved by the books, and every evening, baby Mangalam slept soundly on the bed I made for her on the window seat.

What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance.

Mr. Fox didn't come, he didn't come, he didn't.

Nowhere hidden has ever turned away a goodheart guest.