Loss is as old as life itself. But for all our evolution, we are yet to accept it.
His running was over. His dancing was over. Worse, for some reason, the way he used to feel about things was over, too. He withdrew. Things seemed silly or pointless
No story sits by itself. Our lives connect like threads on a loom, interwoven in ways we never realise.
Love is not revenge. It can't be thrown like a rock. And you can't create it to fix your problems. Forcing love is like picking a flower then insisting that it grow.
Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth? Cleo asked. People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame.She...
There are some mornings when I cry and cry and mourn for myself. Some mornings, I'm so angry and bitter. But it doesn't last too long. Then I get up and say, 'I want to live …
The second death. To think that you died and no one would remember you.
If you believe it, you don't need proof.
But daughters have their own lives. You can't smother them. She'll get married. Have children.
The only whole heart is a broken heart.
Love her or some other guy will.Love like there is no tomorrow, cause there may not be.Never take what/who you have for granted cause it will end up turning into something you had.Do what it takes to...
Everyone joins a band in this life. And what you play always affects someone. Sometimes, it affects the world. Frankie's symphony ends. And so, at last, we rest.
I figure it's like in the Bible, the Adam and Eve deal? the Captain said. Adam's first night on earth? When he lays down to sleep? He thinks it's all over, right? He doesn't know what sleep is. His...
All he knows is that something stepped in front of him, blocking his way, until in time he gave up on things, he gave up studying engineering and he gave up on the idea of traveling. He sat down in...
Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself. -W. H. AUDEN
And, as is usually the fate with bands, most of them will break up-through distance, differences, divorce, or death.
I still don't understand, Eddie whispered. What good came from your death? You lived, the Blue Man answered. But we barely knew each other. I might as well have been a stranger....Strangers, the Blue...
That there are no random acts. That we are all connected. That you can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind.Eddie shook his head. We were throwing a...
Strangers are family you don't know yet.
The truth was, they had not kept in touch. War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.
No love is worth that trouble.
In the beginning, there was a question. In the end, the question gets answered. God sings, we hum along, and there are many melodies, but it's all one song-one same, wonderful, human song. I am in...
Do you understand? Why we're here? This is not your heaven. It's mine.
Parents rarely let got of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away.
Love does not make you a fool.
Parents rarely let go of their children, so children let go of them. They move on. They move away. The moments that used to define them-a mother's approval, a father's nod-are covered by moments of...
But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps.
Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do; Accept the past as past without denying it or discarding it; Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others; Don't assume that it's too...
Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression.
It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
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...