“You read these thingsAnd you ask the world,Why doesnt it happen To someone like you?Deep in your heart,You knew the answer:Its because you dont let it.”

“Im not brave enough to love youThe same wayYoure not strong enough to take me on.”

“Was I a secret not worth sharingOrWas I a fact not worth telling?”

“You read these thingsAnd you ask the world,Why doesn’t it happen To someone like you?Deep in your heart,You knew the answer:It’s because you don’t let it.”

“I’m not brave enough to love youThe same wayYou’re not strong enough to take me on.”

“You are the dreamBut I’ve had wake up calls”

“Ever have a dream so real you felt you could reach out and touch it?”

“The nearest thing we have to a defence against [the gods] (but there is no real defence) is to be very wide awake and sober and hard at work, to hear no music, never to look at earth or sky, and (a...”

“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“Im not a woman you bring home to Mother, pick out china patterns with, or Mary forefend, breed. Ive seen a chunk of the universe, true, but theres still so much more to see. I doubt Ill ever cure t...”

“My hope, my heaven, my trust must be,My gentle guide, in following thee.”

“Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmonious...”