Some people are oil and water.
John Christopher, The Pool of Fire.
“I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That w...”
“His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.”
“We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.”
“Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.”
“The seeking of a mate shall be undertaken with due preparation and care. A life-bond should never be contemplated as a light thing--unlike a legal union or sanctified joining, the sealing of souls ...”
“I dont have cookie-cutter relationships, Rumi. Women arent iPhone apps that I download and discard!”
“In advising the heads of state to learn from tragedy rather than perpetuate its existence Robert Kennedy excalimed, "Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." ...”