“Sexual intercourse beganin nineteen sixty-three(Which was rather late for me)between the end of the Chatterley banand the Beatles' first LP.”
Philip Larkin
“The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.”
Warren Spahn
“Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion”
Helen Rowland
“But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.”
Henry S. Haskins
“Never give up. Keep pressing on, hold on tight and fight. Healing is within your reach and is yours for the taking.”
Cathy Gipson
“Allow yourself to go through all the emotions, it's part of the process. Fight to take your life back, fight for your strength.”
“Face the monster, you know...the one that works overtime to keep you down. The one that tells you it was your fault, the one that tells you you deserved it, that you didn't fight hard enough, that tells you you trusted him so what did you expect, the one that tells you things will never get better. That monster....he's a liar. Get to know him, and then kick him to the curb!”