if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.
Phyllis BottomeTo see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.
Phyllis BottomeOur responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!
Phyllis Bottome