Famous quotes containing the words repair and/or nerves:
“It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)
“After great pain, a formal feeling comes—
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs—”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)