Books are a refuge, a sort of cloistral refuge, from the vulgarities of the actual world. – Walter Pater
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. – Walter Pater
In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to a stereotyped world, and meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes two persons, things, situations, seem alike. – Walter Pater
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. – Walter Pater
Ive got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isnt going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you. – Courteney Cox