Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.
In love, as in life, one misheard word can be tremendously important. If you tell someone you love them, for instance, you must be absolutely certain that they have replied “I love you back” and not “I love your back” before you continue the conversation.
Just because something is traditional is no reason to do it, of course. Piracy, for example, is a tradition that has been carried on for hundreds of years, but that doesn’t mean we should all attack ships and steal their gold.
What do your parents know, about surviving?
It is almost as if happiness is an acquired taste, like coconut cordial or ceviche, to which you can eventually become accustomed, but despair is something surprising each time you encounter it.
With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.
In the secret pocket, she often kept a small pocket dictionary, which she would take out whenever she encountered a word she did not know.
Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make – bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake – if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.
Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of “systematically assisting Sisyphus’s stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister,” which is easier done than said.
There’s information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology – and that’s just in the P aisle, which we’re walking down right now.
They say that when you’re really in love, the world becomes gossamer and gorgeous, but in my experience the world gets grimy, and the love object is in stark relief from the surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street.
It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.
Having a personal philosophy is like having a pet marmoset, because it may be very attractive when you acquire it, but there may be situations when it will not come in handy at all.
Make sure you have your own mask on, before helping others with theirs.
There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.
I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.
The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done.
The Long Goodbye’ is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for ‘All The Wrong Questions’.
Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.
Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.