Love... love is the only thing that doesn't hurt. So many people are afraid of it. I think I was five years ago. Afraid that loving you would hurt me, one way or the other. But love doesn't hurt....
I smiled at him. Not even Wyatt would have known how to be this honorable when talking about a girl that had hurt him.
Falling in love is like learning a whole new language and the culture that goes along with it. When you fall out of love it can be hard to pick up where you left off and start a new.
You'll never cross an emotional bridge, if you keep rushing back to the other side.
First love is like hearing your favorite music, regardless of how much you repeat it, every time you will enjoy all the pain.
No, it was simply that I was uninterested in making, as I saw it, a Xerox of some old emotional state. I was in my mid-thirties, with a marriage more or less behind me. I was no longer vulnerable to...
So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke...
How was it possible to miss something you no longer wanted? Blaine needed what she was unable to give and she needed what he was unable to give, and she grieved this, the loss of what could have been.
When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?
If we'd put them in a vase in the living room, they would have been everyone's flowers. I wanted them to be my flowers.
It's over! said Max, and he sent the monsters to bed without dinner. And Max, the king of all monsters, felt lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him more than anyone else. Then, from the other...
If I'd had any way of knowing that things were - as Lily Tomlin once said - going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.
You turned your head to look at me. Your eyes looked so big in your face, so mysterious - wide and flickering like a butterfly - wing mask. When you saw me the wails turned to sobs, and then just...
I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like...
She reached for Matty and embraced him. Ordinarily uncomfortable with hugs, he would have stiffened his shoulders and drawn back; but now, from exhaustion and affection, he held Kira and to his own...
All my life, I'd been around men. That night, I discovered the tenderness of a woman.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
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...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
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...