All we can do is strive to accept our fate with grace, whatever it might be.
None of us ever know what we are choosing when we choose life. If certainty is so important to you, then you should have chosen to be dead. That is a certain thing.
you are right where you should be / now act like it
It's fine, I repeated. And whatever. It was fine. It had to be.
Fine. It was Goddamn Cat, then.
So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard...
Nobody is perfect. Everyone who has ever loved someone has had to overlook something.
You can't decide how someone will go about loving you.
Miriam came to consider Eliza a gosling born into a family of ducks, loved and accepted, but always and forever a goose.
You know the truth. Evie's never coming back. And the sooner you make your peace with that, the sooner you can start to heal.
People don't change . . . You just sort of have to take them like they are.
Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose.
The thing you can count on in life is that Tennessee will always be scorching hot in August.
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn...
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....