165 quotes found
“And when life's sweet fable ends,Soul and body part like friends;No quarrels, murmurs, no delay;A kiss, a sigh, and so away.”
“If you are distant and misanthropic, selfish or cruel, you will find yourself alone in life and death.”
“A loving soul was always more beautiful over the long haul, but actual prettiness was fleeting.”
“In the battle of DNAs, your DNA will always win against the DNA of your father.”
“The true essence of vedanta focuses upon subject rather than object.”
“I do believe that characters in novels belong to their writers and their readers pretty equally. I've learned a lot of things about the characters I write from people who read about them. Readers e...”
“Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have.”
“She was worried these thoughts would crush her if she let them come, but they didn't. You didn't know how heavy they were until you tried to lift them. You didn't know how strong you were.”
“In a way it scared me, having a summer of experiences and feelings that belonged to me alone. What happened in front of my friends felt read. What happened to me by myself felt partly dreamed, part...”
“Most of us focus so much on 'capturing' the moment that we don't realize we keep losing it for the next which we will lose next:-)”
“Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.”
“Carmen: I want you to leave me alone, but not ignore me. I want you to miss me when I go away to college, but not be sad. I want you to stay exactly the same, but not be lonely or alone. I want to ...”
“She perched on her windowsill, gazing at the lurid sun soaking into the Caldera, trying to appreciate it even though she couldnt have it. Why did she always feel she had to do something in the face...”
“The crowded city streets, the chaos of disorderly lives nothing could keep her from wreaking love. She always wanted to let go, and I always wanted to own. She always had it coming, and I never ha...”
“In failure, you begin to lose friends. In success, you lose most of them.”
“Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.”
“She felt like parts of her soul were missing, had left her body long ago. It had happened not in Greece three months ago, but long before that. It was in Greece that she'd realized those parts had ...”
“Bridget's anger evaporated and the sadness came back. The anger was easier. She owned and controlled it, whereas the sadness owned her.”
“She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There ...”
“Life is a painting,dream and draw sketch of own's life.”
