It was as simple as that - they met. As simple as only beautiful things can be beautiful, as only life-changing things, turning-point things, can be simple. ("For The Rest Of Her Life")
Interpretation
The quote expresses that meaningful connections and life-changing moments can often be surprisingly simple and beautiful.
Cornell Woolrich's quote highlights the beauty and simplicity of profound experiences and relationships. In life, some of the most impactful events, such as meaningful encounters with others, can occur effortlessly and are often associated with genuine beauty. This serves as a reminder that life's most significant moments can arise without complication, emphasizing their authenticity and power.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a wedding to highlight the beauty of love.
I turned away from him and went on my way, up the street and about my business. The past was dead. The future was resignation, fatality, and could only end one way now. The present was numbness, that could feel nothing. Like Novocaine needled into your heart. What was there in all the dimensions of time for me? ("Life Is Weird Sometimes" first chapter of unpublished novel THE LOSER)
Each unto himself has his own world that he looks out upon, and though someone else were to stand on the very selfsame inch of ground your feet were placed upon, guided by chalk marks, he would not see the same things you did.
As for her perfume, it was the kind you only noticed after she'd left a room, not while she was still in it. Even then you didn't realize it was perfume, you only wondered what had made you think of her just then.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
My sight _x000D_ My heart _x000D_ My Life _x000D_ All three words I have woven into one ... Love.
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.
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