That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. Amelia Barr Read Quote
It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem. Amelia Barr Read Quote
Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished. Amelia Barr Read Quote
But the lover’s power is the poet’s power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. Amelia Barr Read Quote
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away. Amelia Barr Read Quote
There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it. Amelia Barr Read Quote
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural. Amelia Barr Read Quote
