Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.