One withers, another grows.
The pain you go through in life doesn't really touch you . . . not the real you. . . . You are so much lighter than you think.
I believe he died this way on purpose. I believe he wanted no chilling moments, no one to witness his last breath and be haunted by it, the way he had been haunted by his mother's death-notice...
Love comes when you least expect it. Love comes when you most need it. Love comes when you are ready to receive it or can no longer deny it.
Truth is light. Lies are shadows. Music is both.
Once, lovers on faraway shores sat by candlelight and dipped ink to parchment, writing words that could not be erased. They took an evening to compose their thoughts, maybe the next evening as well.
And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.
We cannot stop what Heaven chooses.
Remember this always: There is a reason God limits man's days
There is no fair in life and death. If it were, no good men would die young.
What happened next depends on how much you believe.
None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life.
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do.
It's amazing the fantasies your mind can put together.
By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already...
We all know how to be a child.
I worked because I could control it.
Dor shook his head. The phrase. What does it mean?Sarah wondered if he was kidding. Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you're saying goodbyeand it's like no time passed at...
Sometimes when you're losing someone, you hang on to whatever tradition you can.
She wasn't easy on me, don't get me wrong. She smacked me. She scolded me. She punished me. But she loved me. She really did. She loved me falling off a swing set. She loved me stepping on her floors...
That kind of love - the kind you realize you already have by the life you've created together - that's the kind that lasts.
Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.
Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.
This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved, you might cal it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone.
If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it will happen anyhow.
When you're in bed, you're dead
At that moment i felt lonelier than i'd ever felt before, and that loneliness seemed to squat in my lungs and crush all but my most minimal breathing. There was nothing left to say. Not about this....
You humans are always locking each other away. Cells. Dungeons. Some of your earliest jails were sewers, where men sloshed in their own waste. No other creature has this arrogance-to confine its own....
As children grow, they gravitate to their fates.
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of...
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Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
the full fury of his storming countenance with its rugged overhang of gullied forehead and huge crag...
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