The city of cats

The city of cats and the city of men exist one inside the other, but they are not the same city.
Italo Calvino

Someone we can always blame for everything

If God lived on earth we would break his windows.
Jewish proverb

The first kiss

The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender.
Emil Ludwig

Sorrow

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Places

How hard it is to escape from places. However carefully one goes they hold you - you leave little bits of yourself fluttering on the fences - like rags and shreds of your very life.
Katherine Mansfield

Desire to fall

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
Salman Rushdie

Watching my life.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
- George Eliot