81 quotes found
“There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.”
“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myt...”
“It isn't the happy ending that Ingrid and I have dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, a...”
“Life may change but memories won't.”
“I pulled the blanket around my shoulders. The sky was dark and vast and empty and not even a plane disturbed that sullen stillness, not even a star. The emptiness above was now mine within. It was ...”
“... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be.”
“You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and theres nothing you can do to keep th...”
“Sometimes sharing isn’t caring”
“When life goes on doesn’t it just trample over what was there before?”
“Sometimes careful just isn’t good enough.”
“They ask me, what will change if we change the perspective?I replied, “Everything.”
“Why don’t we just say it already?” He smirked. “I mean come on now.”I eyed him carefully not knowing where to step. “What is it you think we want to say?”“That we love each other. I kick myself eve...”
“As plain Jane, she had far more to risk than Lady Mystère did. Behind her mask she could be the mistress of his darkest desires, but without it there were consequences to her deception. It was the ...”
“You didn’t,” she said in a resolute voice. “And you won’t in the future, because with each purging of your soul, your anger will subside until the only release you’ll need will be in my arms.”
“When trouble comes, close ranks”
“Life is not a test or a competition. We only compete with ourselves.”
“When something or someone moves you, truly moves you, a part of you wakes affected and afflicted by senses you had never previously experiences. A part of you that you never understood, or perhaps ...”
“Worthless is life just dreaming but not working,” -Taleeb”
“Today I’m going… but one day I’ll back to prove myself, who I’m...”
“That was the splendid thing about life: Though it was cruel, it was also mysterious, filled with wonder and surprise; sometimes the surprises were so amazing that they qualified as miraculous, and ...”
