Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.
Will I see you again?′ I asked. ‘Of course you will dear, you’ll see everyone again;.
Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It’s as true as any compass.
There’s not much news in the news anymore. The lies they tell don’t leave a lot of time for the facts about anything.
I have no choice but to believe that all our lives are woven through with grace, because only then could the promise made to me and Stormy come true.
When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn’t hurt anyone but yourself – – well, you can forgive yourself for those.
Always as lovely as any woman in any magazine, as any TV star of whom millions were enamored, she had lately looked thin and drawn. Even the evident weariness and the crescents of darkness like fading bruises around her eyes did not detract from her appearance. In fact, they suggested that she was tenderhearted and haunted by some terrible loss, that her pain, like the pain endured by a martyr, was beautiful, which then made her face yet more beautiful than it had been before.
I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced.
The mild wind made the trees sway gently, in a lullaby rhythm, and the resultant susurration was like the soft sighs and dreamy murmurs of a thousand peacefully slumbering children.
In my bones, I know that I am not long for this world.
Not all wounds are the bleeding kind.
And because it was so wonderful, I slipped back down into that dream of dogs and children and beautiful people who met my eyes and knew me in full, knew me and did not reject me.
There will be something very wrong with any place we go.
He glared at me. His glare could melt a polar bear’s testicles.
This isn’t a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don’t overdose.
Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations.
Maybe the difference between horror and holiday was just the width of an ordinary street.
If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown.
I asked for a sign that what I had done was necessary. Just one small sign. Nothing big. One small but incontestable sign. I opened my eyes. There was no sign. It doesn’t work that way and never did.
Anyway, knowledge isn’t wisdom, and we aren’t here just to stuff ourselves with facts and figures. We are given this life so we might earn the next; the gift is a chance to grow in spirit, and knowledge is one of the many nutrients that facilitate our growth.