There was so much time wasted not spending it together.
Despair can be altered by one simple smile offered by a stranger; confidence can become fear by the arrival of one uneasy presence.
Los momentos son muy valiosos; a veces se prolongan y otra veces son fugaces, y sin embargo puede hacerse mucho en ellos; en un momento puedes cambiar una mente, puedes salvar una vida y puedes incluso enamorarte.
She longs for him to be here, but knows it was she who walked away from him. It’s her fault he’s not here.
You can’t know everything by looking at me. You can never know by looking at someone.
Apunta a la luna y si fallas, al menos estaras entre las estrellas.
The most painful moment in my life also became the moment I showed the most strength and courage.
Sometimes you see everything so clearly and other times you can’t even see yourself, but then, isn’t that all of us?
I’ve come a long way. But I’ve a distance to go. My dream? My dream is to soar happily into my future.
He pauses, looking around at the youthful faces staring up at him, their minds empty vessels waiting to be filled. So much to learn, so little time to do it in, such little passion within them to understand it truly. It is his job to give them passion. To share with them his experiences of travel, his knowledge of all the great masterpieces of centuries ago.
We are constantly evolving; I suppose I have always known that, I feared stopping, and it is ironic that it was only when I finally stopped that I moved the most. I know now that we never truly stop, our journey is never complete, because we will continue to flourish – just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
Whatever use double maths has in life is beyond me.
My friends’ hugs are longer and tighter; consist of extra squeezes and pats, which alternate between a circular rubbing motion and a light pitter-pattering on the back, both of which I find surprisingly comforting.
I’ve learned that home is not a place, it’s a feeling. I can make the flat look as pretty as I can, put as many flower boxes on the window sill as I want, put a welcome mat outside the front door, hang a Home Sweet Home sign over the fireplace, and take to wearing aprons and baking cookies, but the truth is that I know I don’t want to stay here forever.
This is a story about people who find out who they are. About people who are unraveled and whose cores are revealed to all who count. And those who count are finally revealed to them. Just in time.
Some people say that you shouldn’t operate from a place of fear. But if there is no fear, how is there a challenge? Often that is when I’ve done my best work, because I have embraced the fear and challenged myself.
I believed in God as much as I believed in germs. It was something adults just scared you about, just habit, something I had to do.
People didn’t always listen to the narrative, they just looked at the pictures.
I’m sure it’s like you writing a story. If you don’t care, how can the reader?
Apart from them, Kitty had never been able to keep friends, not because she was disloyal in any way, she just felt that she hadn’t connected with anyone deeply since her school friends and so it was easy to drift away as life moved on, as college finished and as she found new jobs and created new friendships that lasted as long as the jobs had.