Still Life with Strings Quotes

“To be a muse is to be a wonder in someone else's eyes, flaws and all.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“A picture is just a picture, but add music and there's emotion. There's a story.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“We all see a lot when we decide to truly look.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“Sometimes I wish my brain didn't always have to warn me about things. Stupid people seem to live such easy, carefree lives.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“I think I might have dreamt you.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“when everything else in life fails, there still has to be music.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“People are shit. The day you stop expecting decency from them is the day you’ll free yourself from getting hurt.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“It was just an ordinary night. He didn’t think anything extraordinary would happen. Until it did. Turning a corner onto the bustling night time street, he saw her all in blue. The woman from his painting was a living, breathing thing… and she was so completely still.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“Sometimes I can imagine things so hard that I feel like they’re really happening.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“How fortunate I was that our paths crossed. I’ve a feeling that having this sad, lonely, lovely man in my life is going to change it irrevocably. Even if from now on I only ever get to observe him from afar, he will mark me somehow.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“The unknown is sexier that the revealed. All magic tricks are a disappointment once you learn how they’re done.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“To be a muse is to be a wonder in someone else’s eyes, flaws and all.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“It’s amazing the things a hug from another human being can do.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“I think perfect is just feeling content with your lot”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“When you want to be accomplished at something, you have to sacrifice other things in life.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“Anyway, what with jobs being so thin on the ground these days, I can’t exactly afford to be picky. You’ll be amazed by what you can achieve when necessity sets in.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“I’m all about the willpower, especially since I’m a recovering alcoholic who works in a bar. Most people say that to properly get over an addiction, you have to purge all presence of the drug from your life. I take a different approach. The fact that I can be around alcohol and not drink it, well, I like to think that makes me stronger. It’s been five years, and I haven’t touched a drop.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“m all about the willpower, especially since I’m a recovering alcoholic who works in a bar. Most people say that to properly get over an addiction, you have to purge all presence of the drug from your life. I take a different approach. The fact that I can be around alcohol and not drink it, well, I like to think that makes me stronger. It’s been five years, and I haven’t touched a drop.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“The moon is full tonight, a round white orb perched amid the stars. I want to go up there and see what everything looks like from on high. I flutter my wings and prepare for flight, flapping them through the air and then leaping into the sky. My ascent is an easy one. I pluck a star out of the blackness and stick it in my blue hair as an adornment. When I reach the moon, I find a comfortable spot and sit. Leaning my chin on my hand, I gaze back down at the street. The people look like tiny black ants, the buildings like less brightly coloured blocks of Lego.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“When you put yourself out there, you’re going to encounter every facet of society: the good, the bad, and the drunk off their arses. Kids are the best. They haven’t yet lost the sense of wonder that makes them stare up at you and truly believe you’re some sort of blue-fairy-bird-woman-thing.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“Don't say you'll try. Say you'll succeed. Trying means you're giving yourself the option to fail. Don't give yourself that option. I didn't and look at me five years sober.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings

“least. I couldn’t look away when I saw you. You had this expression on your face like you were imagining heaven.”
― L.H. Cosway, Still Life with Strings