Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.
Tana French, The Likeness.
“That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had go...”
“It always took my breath away, he said, that the five of us could have found one anotheragainst such odds, through all the layers of armored fortifications each of us had set up Do you see now why ...”
“Weve become a nation of defaulters: we buy on credit, and when the bill comes in, were so deeply outraged that we refuse even to look at it.”
“I loved him, you know,' she said. 'I would have loved him as hard as he'd let me, for the rest of my life.”
“Throughout history--even a hundred years ago, even fifty--it was discontent that was considered the threat to society, the defiance of natural law, the danger that had to be exterminated at all cos...”
“Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. Th...”
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
“This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.”
“Lost Time is never found again.”
“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”
“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”