It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.
I believed I had won the world in an hour and that I still didn't know I could lose it in a minute.
This is working out pretty well, all things considered. My giddy side wants to giggle, but I choke it down. Later for the girlishness.
Why do you cry for someone else? Save your tears for your own time of mourning, when you are alone! When loneliness wants to break your heart and you have no one...
You're not dead, but you're not alive, either. You're a wintergirl, Lia - Lia, caught in between the worlds. You're a ghost with a beat
I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude.
But I lived in that moment - my life became beautiful again for those few seconds when our hands grazed.
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early bursts of tears, after the praises have been spoken, and the good...
Although anxiety is part of life, never let it control you.
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...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...