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I am sarcastic and dry, but I also have a pretty huge zest for life.
— Krysten Ritter
I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
She died praying that she might die.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
— Henry Van Dyke
Womenwives and mothers
are the same everywhere. — Mary Boykin Chesnut
Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
Like some crazed masochistic yo-yo
— Melina Marchetta
Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
One alone does not help, but rather he who unites with many at the right moment.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I am always on the women's side.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
I don't think fame is that important to me.
— Kourtney Kardashian
Is anything worth it?
— Mary Boykin Chesnut
We will go forward ... we will never go back.
— Michael Bloomberg
For a man with no cows you talk a lot of bullshit, Ryan.
— Michael Robotham
Threatened men live long.
— Mary Boykin Chesnut