Categorie: English proverbs and sayings in pictures

Grief that is held back and given no voice bruises the heart.

We are all addicted to something that takes away the pain.

We cannot force ourselves to love — or to withhold it. At best, we can curb our actions. The heart itself is beyond control. That is its power, and its weakness.

It’s weird to feel someone’s attention on you that way, like you’re the only thing in the world they’re listening to. Most of the time people are distracted, or just thinking about what they’re going to say next.

I’d spent so long trying to fit in, trying to be someone I wasn’t, that I had no idea who I was any more.

I don’t care anymore, but sometimes, it hurts just a little.

Antoinette van Kleeff: Dutch Instagram blogger. Procrastinator, Dutch, London addict, Hufflepuff, Christmas crazy, theatre lover. When snow falls, nature listens.

Will Chancellor: American writer, grew up in Hawaii and Texas. A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall is his first novel. He lives in New York. By December, an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.

Oliver Herford: (2 December 1860 – 5 July 1935). Anglo-American writer, artist, and illustrator known for his pithy bon mots and skewed sense of humor. He was born in Sheffield, England on 2 December 1860 to Rev. Brooke Herford and Hannah Hankinson Herford. Oliver’s father, a Unitarian minister, moved the family to Chicago in 1876… Lees verder Oliver Herford

Robert Buchanan: (1813–1866). Scottish socialist writer and lecturer, and journalist. I wander forth this chill December dawn: John Frost and all his elves are out, I see, as busy as the elfin world can be, clothing a world asleep with fleecy lawn.