A man’s life can pivot on the smallest hinge of time. No minute is without potential for momentous change, and each tick of the clock might be the voice of Fate whispering a promise or a warning.
The excessive passion of your yearning could blind you to the mistakes you made, so that in the end, you were defeated by the sheer power of your need.
You wanted it once. You don’t go as far as wanting it and then not wanting it anymore. A man’s mind doesn’t work that way.
An object in motion tends to stay in motion, and an object too long at rest tends to have her throat slit.
Is your opinion supposed to matter to me? I don’t even know your name. You have a name, or are you just some anonymous gremlin who spins into people’s lives and wrecks their mood?
The thing pursuing him, however, was not only his past but also his fate, and the rails that led away from it also led inexorably to it.
Even decent people must occasionally choose between the lesser of two evils.
Robert Heinlein’s The Star Beast was.
Well I’m not in Adams and Steichen’s league. I like to think my work is art, but few galleries represent photos anymore, not like there were when those guys were hot. The mystique is gone, you know. Every Joe and Jane with a smartphone thinks they’re a genius photographer.
Already he knew the future. He was making it.
Humor, faith, courage, compassion – these don’t rot and vanish;.
When a society erases its past, for whatever reason,” she said, “it cannot have a future.
Sometimes a girl who doesn’t like guns is nevertheless obliged to carry one if she’s got any common sense at all.
By relocating from this world to the one where Jeffy and Amity yearned for her, she’d be taking an action that would spawn other parallel lives for herself, of which she, in this incarnation, had no knowledge. Other than her husband and daughter, whose lives would be affected by her action, how many others would live additional lives that branched from her action, and did it matter?
All that was considered evil on this side of the glass might be judged good on the other side. Truth here might be lies there, and the future might precede the past.
In this beautiful but hard world, fate spared no species.
She could remain an optimist because she understood that the world was made exclusively for the innocent. Rooms to house the wicked weren’t included in the original architecture. Eventually, the world would be remodeled to restore it to its original purpose.
So many people spend their lives in jobs they hate, and that’s worse.
And anyway, things have a way of happening that force you to be what you are.
But the rebellious primitive that lived in the back of every human brain was drawn to what the forebrain deemed too dark for civilized consideration, and the eye sometimes turned traitor.