A life I didn't choose chose me.
Wally Lamb, We Are Water.
“Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.”
“So maybe thats what love means. Having the capacity to forgive the one who wronged you, no matter how deep the hurt was.”
“We are like water, arent we? We can be fluid, flexible when we have to be. But strong and destructive, too. And something else, I think to myself. Like water, we mostly follow the path of least res...”
“Change what you can, accept what you cant, and be smart enough to know the difference”
“Too bad I didn't know you back then, I would have come and rescued you." Like he was Prince Charming or something. Which he is, in a way, because he rescued me from the simple, uncomplicated life I...”
“Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference.”
“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”
“Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.”
“But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.''In fact,' said Mustapha Mond, 'you're claiming the right to be unhappy.' 'All ...”
“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.”
“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.”
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end...”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”
“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”